title: Contributors to the mathematical background for general relativity
text: # Contributors to the mathematical background for general relativity
  
  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.
  
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  * 0–9
  * A
  * B
  * C
  * D
  * E
  * F
  * G
  * H
  * I
  * J
  * K
  * L
  * M
  * N
  * O
  * P
  * Q
  * R
  * S
  * T
  * U
  * V
  * W
  * X
  * Y
  * Z
  
  ## 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)
  