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Christoffel symbols. In mathematics and physics, the Christoffel symbols are an array of numbers describing a metric connection. [1] The metric connection is a specialization of the affine connection to surfaces or other manifolds endowed with a metric, allowing distances to be measured on that surface. In differential geometry, an affine ...
Elwin Bruno Christoffel (German: [kʁɪˈstɔfl̩]; 10 November 1829 – 15 March 1900) was a German mathematician and physicist. He introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, which would later provide the mathematical basis for general relativity.
Elwin Bruno Christoffel (German: [kʀɪˈstɔfəl]; November 10, 1829 – March 15, 1900) was a German mathematician and physicist. He introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry , opening the way for the development of tensor calculus , which would later provide the mathematical basis for general relativity .
Elwin Bruno Christoffel. Elwin Bruno Christoffel (November 10, 1829 – March 15, 1900) was a German mathematician and physicist. He introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, which would later provide the mathematical basis for general relativity .
Em matemática e física, os símbolos de Christoffel, assim nomeados por Elwin Bruno Christoffel (1829–1900), são expressões em coordenadas espaciais para a conexão de Levi-Civita derivada do tensor métrico. Em sentido amplo, as derivativas covariantes de uma conexão afim arbitrária em uma base coordenada são normalmente chamadas de símbolos de Christoffel. Utilizam-se os símbolos ...
Christofell, E. B. This memorial volume is dedicated to E. B. Christoffel on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his birth. Its aim is, on the one hand, to present the life of Christoffel and the scientific milieu in which he worked and, on the other hand, to present a survey of his work not only in its historical context but especially in ...
CHRISTOFFEL, ELWIN BRUNO (b. Montjoie [now Monschau], near Aachen, Germany, 10 November 1829; d. Strasbourg, France [then Germany], 15 March 1900), mathematics. Christoffel studied at the University of Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1856 with a dissertation on the motion of electricity in homogeneous bodies. He continued his studies in Montjoie. In 1859 he became lecturer at the ...
