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1. 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 - 08-08-2002
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3. Hermann Minkowski
A brief biography with quotations and a bibliography.
http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Minkowski.html - 14-04-2000
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Rating: [7.00] Votes: [2414]
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4. 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 - 14-10-2003
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Rating: [7.00] Votes: [873]
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5. Aleksandr Friedmann
A biography with reference to contemporaries, and a list of references.
http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Friedmann.html - 19-06-2002
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Rating: [6.00] Votes: [1072]
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6. 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 - 04-08-2000
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Rating: [6.00] Votes: [1076]
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7. Karl Schwarzschild
A brief biography with reference to contemporary mathematicians and theories.
http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Schwarzschild.html - 06-09-2002
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Rating: [6.00] Votes: [502]
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8. Luigi Bianchi
A mathematician who developed many theorems regarding Riemannian geometry
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Bianchi.html - 26-10-2002
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Rating: [6.00] Votes: [975]
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9. 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
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Grossmann.html - 20-02-2003
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Rating: [6.00] Votes: [2020]
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10. 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 - 23-09-2000
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Rating: [6.00] Votes: [421]
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