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Analytic dynamics was another topic of research by Levi-Civita.
Furthermore, in 1933 he contributed to Dirac's equations of QM.🧪 ⚛️
He was one of the greatest Eu mathematicians of his epoch: not only for his studies, but also for his high civility and strong humanity.
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The absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) conceived by Ricci-Curbastro in 1892, and generalized with Levi-Civita, is the language of Relativity.⚛️ 🧪
In 1900, in fact, Levi-Civita published, jointly with Ricci-Curbastro, the theory of tensors...⤵️
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Black and white portrait of Tullio Levi-Civita, circa 1900. He is shown almost from the waist up, wearing metal-rimmed glasses, a dark jacket with a white collar, and a tie. His hair is cut short and neatly trimmed, as is his moustache. His expression is almost austere. Author: Unknown Source: Wikimedia Commons
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March 29, 1873: the great mathematician Tullio Levi-Civita was born in Padua.
He was one of the founders of absolute differential calculus, which had applications to the Theory of General Relativity. ⚛️🔭🧪
➡️ mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/...
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Both revolutionized scientific thinking, one through a unifying vision of mathematics and the other of physics.
According to mathematician Luc Illusie, #Grothendieck was a master of generalization.
My article➡️ www.lanostra-matematica.org/2014/12/grot...
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#Grothendieck revolutionized homological algebra in his famous Tôhoku paper, published in 1957 in Tôhoku Mathematical Journal.
➡️ ncatlab.org/nlab/show/T%...
Simply put, Grothendieck's role in #mathematics is comparable to that played by Einstein in physics.
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The photo portrays Alexander Grothendieck during an algebraic geometry seminar in Bure-sur-Yvette during the 1960s. Alexander, standing and seen almost from behind, speaks to listeners in a room lit by daylight. Photograph: IHES
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28 March 1928: Alexander Grothendieck was born.
“It is in this gesture of going beyond, to be something in oneself rather than the pawn of a consensus, [...] – it is in this solitary act that one finds true creativity.”
➡️ www.fermentmagazine.org/rands/promen...
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The Hohendorff Almagest: A rediscovered case study in early modern ptolemaic astronomy royalsocietypublishing.org/rsnr/article... | #Astronomy #HistSci #HistAstro #HistMaths
The Hohendorff Almagest: A rediscovered case study in early modern ptolemaic astronomy royalsocietypublishing.org/rsnr/article... | #NotesAndRecords #Astronomy #HistSci #HistAstro #HistMaths
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mathematics and epistemology with very popular works, was a communicator of mathematics and physics and wrote several books for the lay public.
A biography➡️ mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/...
Book suggestion: The Value of Science by H. Poincaré
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He is also considered as one of the founders of the field of topology.
His 'Poincaré conjecture' remained an unsolved problem until Grigori Perelman presented a proof in three papers made available in 2002 and 2003 on arXiv.
He also devoted himself to the foundations of
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The young Henri Poincaré in 1887 at the age of 33. Author: Eugène Pirou (1841–1909) Public Domain Via Wikimedia Commons
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29 April 1854: the great Henri Poincaré was born.
"A scientist worthy of the name, above all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same Nature."
— Henri Poincaré
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"Kurt Gödel's achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental—indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark which will remain visible far in space and time."
— John von Neumann
A biography➡️ mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/...
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Gödel is regarded as one of the greatest logicians of all time together with Frege and Aristotle.
His research had a significant impact, as well as on mathematical and computer science thinking, also on the philosophical thinking of the 20th century.
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A young Kurt Gödel, circa 1926. He wears a light-colored jacket, white shirt, and tie. His glasses have round, dark frames. Via Wikimedia Commons: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kurt_g%C3%B6del.jpg Author: unknown The image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired and its author is anonymous.
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28 April 1906: mathematician, logician & philosopher Kurt Gödel, best known for his work on the incompleteness of axiomatic mathematical systems, was born.
"Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine."
— Kurt Gödel
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Among many other roles outside MIT, Rota was also a consultant with the Rand Corporation from 1966 to 1971 and with the Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1969 to 1973.
More: mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/...
Image credit, in the 1st post: MIT
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So Rota is credited with bringing his specialty area of combinatorics from darkness to significative importance.
"The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite."
— G-C Rota
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The Steele Prize citation, received by Rota in 1988, singles out his 1964 paper 'On the Foundations of Combinatorial Theory' as:
"...the single paper most responsible for the revolution that incorporated combinatorics into the mainstream of modern mathematics."
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“a leading innovator and theorist in the transformation of combinatorics from a disparate collection of facts and techniques unworthy of serious mathematical consideration into an active, systematic, and profound branch of modern pure and applied mathematics.”
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where he worked in combinatorics, functional analysis, probability theory, and phenomenology.
As the recipient of the 1996–1997 James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award, was described by the Killian Award Committee as
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Gian-Carlo Rota, photographed while was writing on a blackboard.. Wednesday, March 5, 1997 Huntington Hall, MIT Room 10-250 4:30 pm Image source: https://killianlectures.mit.edu/gian-carlo-rota
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“A good teacher does not teach facts, he or she teaches enthusiasm, open-mindedness and values.”
— Gian-Carlo Rota, renowned mathematician & philosopher born 27 April 1932.
He was a professor of Applied Mathematics & Philosophy at MIT⤵️
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which has greatly influenced the development and growth of some of the best research work in mathematics.
Further reading➡️ www.imsc.res.in/~rao/ramanuj...
Both images in the first post are from Wikimedia Commons.
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Ramanujan has been compared with all-time greats Gauss, Euler and Jacobi, for his natural mathematical genius. Despite his short life-span, he left behind an incredibly vast and significant amount of original work,
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Ramanujan, though had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, produced an exceptional output in the analytical theory of numbers, elliptic functions, continued fractions, and infinite series.
All this before an early death at age 32.
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Passport photograph of Ramanujan created in 1913. Unknown author This image is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
Ramanujan's "Master Theorem" page. This is a page from Ramanujan's notebooks written down by him between 1903-1910 to show his benefactors to convince them about his abilities as a mathematician. The image is in the public domain due to its age.
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26 April 1920: the great mathematician Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan passed away.
"An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God."
— S. Ramanujan
A biography➡️ mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/...
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