Contributors to the mathematical background for general relativity explained

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.

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)

See also