Einstein, Albert (42) Hawking, Stephen (4)

Hubble, Edwin (2)

Websites in People

1. Aleksandr Friedmann
   A biography with reference to contemporaries, and a list of references.
   http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Friedmann.html
   
   
2. 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/~history/Mathematicians/Riemann.html
   
   
3. 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/~history/Mathematicians/Ricci-Curbastro.html
   
   
4. Hendrik Lorentz
   Brief biography.
   http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/%7ehistory/Mathematicians/Lorentz.html
   
   
5. Hermann Minkowski
   A brief biography with quotations and a bibliography.
   http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Minkowski.html
   
   
6. Hermann Weyl
   One of the first people to combine general relativity with the laws of electromagnetism
   http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Weyl.html
   
   
7. Karl Schwarzschild
   A brief biography with reference to contemporary mathematicians and theories.
   http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Schwarzschild.html
   
   
8. Karl Schwarzschild
   The man who solved Einstein's equations and predicted the existence of black holes
   http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Schwarzschild.html
   
   
9. Luigi Bianchi
   A mathematician who developed many theorems regarding Riemannian geometry
   http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Bianchi.html
   
   
10. 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/~history/Mathematicians/Grossmann.html
    
    
11. Willem DeSitter
    Mathematician who studied solution to general relativity and developed DeSitter space
    http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Sitter.html
    
    

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