Contributors to the mathematical background for general relativity

This is a list of contributors to the mathematical background for general relativity. For ease of readability, the contributions (in brackets) are unlinked but can be found in the contributors' article.

B

• Luigi Bianchi (Bianchi identities, Bianchi groups, differential geometry)

C

• Élie Cartan (curvature computation, early extensions of GTR, Cartan geometries)
• Elwin Bruno Christoffel (connections, tensor calculus, Riemannian geometry)
• Clarissa-Marie Claudel (Geometry of photon surfaces)

D

• Tevian Dray (The Geometry of General Relativity)

E

• Luther P. Eisenhart (semi-Riemannian geometries)
• Frank B. Estabrook (Wahlquist-Estabrook approach to solving PDEs; see also parent list)
• Leonhard Euler (Euler-Lagrange equation, from which the geodesic equation is obtained)

G

• Carl Friedrich Gauss (curvature, theory of surfaces, intrinsic vs. extrinsic)

K

• Martin Kruskal (inverse scattering transform; see also parent list)

L

• Joseph Louis Lagrange (Lagrangian mechanics, Euler-Lagrange equation)
• Tullio Levi-Civita (tensor calculus, Riemannian geometry; see also parent list)
• André Lichnerowicz (tensor calculus, transformation groups)

M

• Alexander Macfarlane (space analysis and Algebra of Physics)
• Jerrold E. Marsden (linear stability)

N

• Isaac Newton (Newton's identities for characteristic of Einstein tensor)

R

• Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (Ricci tensor, differential geometry)
• Georg Bernhard Riemann (Riemannian geometry, Riemann curvature tensor)

S

• Richard Schoen (Yamabe problem; see also parent list)
• Corrado Segre (Segre classification)

W

• Hugo D. Wahlquist (Wahlquist-Estabrook algorithm; see also parent list)
• Hermann Weyl (Weyl tensor, gauge theories; see also parent list)
• Eugene P. Wigner (stabilizers in Lorentz group)

See also

• Contributors to differential geometry
• Contributors to general relativity