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We have seen how Gauss’s theory of surface geometry shaped Rie-mann’s conception of general curved manifolds. Riemann’s ideas in turn were taken up by Christoffel (1829–1901), Beltrami (1835–1900), and others. During the closing decades of the 19th century, a powerful school of mathematics developed at the University of Padua. It was here that Levi-Civita came into contact with modern geometry.
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Casey, J. (1996). Levi-Civita (1873–1941). In: Exploring Curvature. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-80274-3_18
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