Contributors to the mathematical background for general relativity
# 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.

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* 0–9
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

## 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)
