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Luigi Bianchi
A mathematician who developed many theorems regarding Riemannian geometry
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~histor...
Georgio Ricci-Curbastro
The mathematician who developed much of tensor calculus before Einstein found a use for it.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~histor...
Karl Schwarzschild
A brief biography with reference to contemporary mathematicians and theories.
http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/...
Southampton GR Explorer
An introduction to Einstein's theory of General Relativity and related topics. Includes text, pictures and movies.
http://www.maths.soton.ac.uk/applied/GR-Ex...
Willem DeSitter
Mathematician who studied solution to general relativity and developed DeSitter space
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~histor...
Hermann Minkowski
A brief biography with quotations and a bibliography.
http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/...
Aleksandr Friedmann
A biography with reference to contemporaries, and a list of references.
http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/...
Hermann Weyl
One of the first people to combine general relativity with the laws of electromagnetism
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~histor...
Hendrik Lorentz
Brief biography.
http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/...
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.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~histor...
Karl Schwarzschild
The man who solved Einstein's equations and predicted the existence of black holes
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/...
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.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~histor...
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2006