Aleksandr Friedmann
A biography with reference to contemporaries, and a list of references. |
Georg Riemann
Although he died before the development of general relativity, his work in non-Euclidean geometries is very important to studying a curved spacetime. |
Georgio Ricci-Curbastro
The mathematician who developed much of tensor calculus before Einstein found a use for it. |
Hendrik Lorentz
Brief biography. |
Hermann Minkowski
A brief biography with quotations and a bibliography. |
Hermann Weyl
One of the first people to combine general relativity with the laws of electromagnetism |
Karl Schwarzschild
A brief biography with reference to contemporary mathematicians and theories. |
Luigi Bianchi
A mathematician who developed many theorems regarding Riemannian geometry |
Marcel Grossmann
A brief biography on Marcel Grossmann, a classmate of Einstein who was the first to find a connection between tensor calculus and the theory of relativity. |
Willem DeSitter
Mathematician who studied solution to general relativity and developed DeSitter space |
