Timeline for Were Christoffel symbols used by Riemann?
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| Mar 18, 2021 at 23:56 | comment | added | KCd | See my question at hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/7974/…. In short, Christoffel himself did not even use "his" symbols $\Gamma_{ij}^k$. They were introduced much later by Einstein in his work on general relativity. | |
| Feb 9, 2020 at 19:27 | history | undeleted | Antoni Parellada | ||
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| Feb 5, 2020 at 1:30 | comment | added | Conifold | Christoffel introduced his symbols in 1869, Riemann died in 1866, so no. | |
| Feb 4, 2020 at 16:19 | history | edited | Antoni Parellada |
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| Feb 4, 2020 at 15:27 | history | asked | Antoni Parellada | CC BY-SA 4.0 |