11 Facts About Tullio Levi-Civita

Tullio Levi-Civita was a pupil of Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, the inventor of tensor calculus.

Tullio Levi-Civita's work included foundational papers in both pure and applied mathematics, celestial mechanics, analytic mechanics and hydrodynamics.

Tullio Levi-Civita graduated in 1892 from the University of Padua Faculty of Mathematics.

Tullio Levi-Civita remained in his position at Padua until 1918, when he was appointed to the Chair of Higher Analysis at the University of Rome; in another two years he was appointed to the Chair of Mechanics there.

In 1933 Tullio Levi-Civita contributed to Paul Dirac's equations in quantum mechanics as well.

In 1936, receiving an invitation from Einstein, Tullio Levi-Civita traveled to Princeton, United States and lived there with him for a year.

Tullio Levi-Civita wrote articles on hydrodynamics and on systems of differential equations.

Tullio Levi-Civita developed the Levi-Civita field, a system of numbers that includes infinitesimal quantities.

Tullio Levi-Civita was elected an international honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1917.

Tullio Levi-Civita became an honorary member of the London Mathematical Society, of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, following his participation in their colloquium in 1930 at the University of St Andrews.

Tullio Levi-Civita was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.