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- Aleksandr Friedmann - A biography with reference to contemporaries, and a list of references.
turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Friedmann.html
- 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.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Riemann.html
- Georgio Ricci-Curbastro - The mathematician who developed much of tensor calculus before Einstein found a use for it.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Ricci-Curbastro.html
- Hendrik Lorentz - Brief biography.
turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/%7ehistory/Mathematicians/Lorentz.html
- Hermann Minkowski - A brief biography with quotations and a bibliography.
turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Minkowski.html
- Hermann Weyl - One of the first people to combine general relativity with the laws of electromagnetism
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Weyl.html
- Karl Schwarzschild - A brief biography with reference to contemporary mathematicians and theories.
turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Schwarzschild.html
- Karl Schwarzschild - The man who solved Einstein's equations and predicted the existence of black holes
www.treasure-troves.com/bios/Schwarzschild.html
- Luigi Bianchi - A mathematician who developed many theorems regarding Riemannian geometry
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Bianchi.html
- 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.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Grossmann.html
- Willem DeSitter - Mathematician who studied solution to general relativity and developed DeSitter space
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Sitter.html
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