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Elwin Bruno Christoffel

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Gender Male
Death124 years ago
Date of birth November 10,1829
Zodiac sign Scorpio
Born Monschau
Germany
Date of died March 15,1900
DiedStrasbourg
France
Influenced by Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
BooksE.B. Christoffel, the Influence of His Work on Mathematics and the Physical Sciences
Known forChristoffel symbols
Riemann curvature tensor
Schwarz–Christoffel mapping
Education Humboldt University of Berlin
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Elwin Bruno Christoffel 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.

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