On the role of virtual work in Levi-Civita's parallel transport

DOI10.1007/s00407-016-0177-0zbMath1352.01014WikidataQ59151436 ScholiaQ59151436MaRDI QIDQ332279

Giuseppe Iurato, Giuseppe Claudio Ruta

Publication date: 28 October 2016

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-016-0177-0

zbMATH Keywords

principle of virtual work; geometrical computation of curvature; parallelism in arbitrary Riemannian manifold; Tullio Levi-Civita

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

01A60: History of mathematics in the 20th century

53-03: History of differential geometry

Related Items

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

Cites Work

• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Beltrami and mathematical physics in non-Euclidean spaces
• Cerruti's treatment of linear elastic trusses
• Toward a scientific and personal biography of Tullio Levi-Civita (1873--1941)
• Ether and theory of elasticity in Beltrami's work
• A historical perspective of Menabrea's theorem in elasticity
• Strength of materials and theory of elasticity in 19th century Italy. A brief account of the history of mechanics of solids and structures
• Piola's contribution to continuum mechanics
• At the origins and in the vanguard of peridynamics, non-local and higher-gradient continuum mechanics: An underestimated and still topical contribution of Gabrio Piola