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Describes his life and his work.
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Joao Magueijo
Theoretical physicist at Imperial College, who does not totally believe in Einstein's theories,
especially the constant speed of light. Includes details about the author's views on the subject
and courses being taught.
http://theory.ic.ac.uk/~magueijo/
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Luigi Bianchi
A mathematician who developed many theorems regarding Riemannian geometry
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Bianchi.html
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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
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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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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
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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
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Karl Schwarzschild
The man who solved Einstein's equations and predicted the existence of black holes
http://www.treasure-troves.com/bios/Schwarzschild.html
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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
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Aleksandr Friedmann
A biography with reference to contemporaries, and a list of references.
http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Friedmann.html
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Hendrik Lorentz
Brief biography.
http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/%7ehistory/Mathematicians/Lorentz.html
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Hermann Minkowski
A brief biography with quotations and a bibliography.
http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Minkowski.html
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Karl Schwarzschild
A brief biography with reference to contemporary mathematicians and theories.
http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Schwarzschild.html
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