Schouten, Levi-Civita and the notion of parallelism in Riemannian geometry (Q346670)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6657511
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    Schouten, Levi-Civita and the notion of parallelism in Riemannian geometry
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6657511

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      Schouten, Levi-Civita and the notion of parallelism in Riemannian geometry (English)
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      29 November 2016
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      The paper reviews some of the unpublished correspondence between Levi-Civita and Schouten in 1918--19 that documents the independent discoveries of the geometrical meaning of the covariant derivative. The implications of the different technical choices made by the two men are explored and some of the correspondence is transcribed.
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      history of differential geometry
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      Levi-Civita's parallelism
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      curvature
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