“I have never had such an interesting correspondence before.” It is 1915 and Albert Einstein has started exchanging letters with Tullio Levi-Civita, whose writings he has already studied. The paper ‘Methods of absolute differential calculus and their application’, published in 1900 by Levi-Civita together with fellow mathematician Gregorio Ricci Curbastro, is essential in the development, 16 years later, of the theory of general relativity. The exchange between Einstein and Levi-Civita, who was appointed extraordinary professor of rational mechanics
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at the University of Padua at only 24 years of age, turns out to be a lively and stimulating one. It is Levi-Civita who first writes to Einstein to inform him of a mathematical error within his latest work. The two develop such an important friendship that when, during a trip to Italy, Einstein is asked what he likes best about the country, his answer is: “Spaghetti and Levi-Civita!”
Knowledge is freedom.
“I have never had such an interesting correspondence before.” It is 1915 and Albert Einstein has started exchanging letters with Tullio Levi-Civita, whose writings he has already studied. The paper ‘Methods of absolute differential calculus and their application’, published in 1900 by Levi-Civita together with fellow mathematician Gregorio Ricci Curbastro, is essential in the development, 16 years later, of the theory of general relativity. The exchange between Einstein and Levi-Civita, who was appointed extraordinary professor of rational mechanics at the University of Padua at only 24 years of age, turns out to be a lively and stimulating one. It is Levi-Civita who first writes to Einstein to inform him of a mathematical error within his latest work. The two develop such an important friendship that when, during a trip to Italy, Einstein is asked what he likes best about the country, his answer is: “Spaghetti and Levi-Civita!”
Knowledge is freedom.