Timeline for Did Riemann invent the Riemann curvature tensor?
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| Dec 20, 2022 at 1:53 | vote | accept | Adam Herbst | ||
| Dec 19, 2022 at 15:28 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | @Conifold: why don't you post this comment as an answer? | |
| Dec 19, 2022 at 15:23 | answer | added | Alexandre Eremenko | timeline score: 7 | |
| Dec 19, 2022 at 9:57 | comment | added | Conifold | The modern (more or less) form appeared in Christoffel's 1869 Crelle paper, theory was developed by Ricci in 1892, and then popularized in his 1900 book with Levi-Civita, see Tensor: history. Grossman relied on it in his collaboration with Einstein, for example. The book is available in English, I do not think Christoffel's paper is translated. | |
| Dec 19, 2022 at 7:08 | history | asked | Adam Herbst | CC BY-SA 4.0 |