People
Aleksandr Friedmann
A biography with reference to contemporaries, and a list of references.
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.
Georgio Ricci-Curbastro
The mathematician who developed much of tensor calculus before Einstein found a use for it.
Hermann Weyl
One of the first people to combine general relativity with the laws of electromagnetism
Karl Schwarzschild
A brief biography with reference to contemporary mathematicians and theories.
Karl Schwarzschild
The man who solved Einstein's equations and predicted the existence of black holes
Luigi Bianchi
A mathematician who developed many theorems regarding Riemannian geometry
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.
Southampton GR Explorer
An introduction to Einstein's theory of General Relativity and related topics. Includes text, pictures and movies.
Willem DeSitter
Mathematician who studied solution to general relativity and developed DeSitter space
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