Timeline for Notation for Christoffel symbols

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when toggle format	what		by	license	comment
Jan 4, 2019 at 1:13	vote	accept	KCd
Dec 11, 2018 at 12:49	comment	added	Michael Bächtold		... and we should actually call them Einstein symbols, since Christoffels have been forgotten.
Dec 10, 2018 at 12:44	comment	added	Michael Bächtold		Interesting! I conclude that the letter $\Gamma$ comes from gravitational field.
Dec 4, 2018 at 3:05	comment	added	KCd		The same anonymous person pointed out that in a footnote on the bottom of p. 381 of the 1950 edition of Sommerfeld's "Mechanics of Deformable Bodies" here he calls $\Gamma_{\mu\nu}^{\sigma}$ "Einstein's symbol".
Dec 4, 2018 at 2:59	comment	added	KCd		An anonymous user brought to my attention another 1918 paper by Weyl using Gamma notation: his "Gravitation und Elektrizität" (pp. 465-480) on p. 469.
Dec 4, 2018 at 2:55	history	edited	KCd	CC BY-SA 4.0	added 288 characters in body
Dec 4, 2018 at 2:43	history	edited	KCd	CC BY-SA 4.0	added 76 characters in body
Dec 4, 2018 at 2:06	comment	added	KCd		It's funny that you mention Eisenhart's book, since it was seeing the braces notation for Christoffel symbols in the 1947 version of it that prompted me to ask my question here.
Dec 4, 2018 at 1:17	history	edited	DanielC	CC BY-SA 4.0	Added note
Dec 4, 2018 at 0:59	history	edited	DanielC	CC BY-SA 4.0	mixed up sources
Dec 4, 2018 at 0:35	review	First posts
Dec 4, 2018 at 10:43
Dec 4, 2018 at 0:34	history	answered	DanielC	CC BY-SA 4.0