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Luigi Bianchi
Born(1856-01-18)18 January 1856
Died6 June 1928(1928-06-06) (aged 72)
NationalityItalian
Alma materScuola Normale Superiore
Known forBianchi classification
Bianchi group
Bianchi identities
Bianchi transform
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsScuola Normale Superiore
Doctoral advisorEnrico Betti
Ulisse Dini
Doctoral studentsLuigi Fantappiè
Guido Fubini
Mauro Picone
Giovanni Sansone

Luigi Bianchi (18 January 1856 – 6 June 1928) was an Italian mathematician. He was born in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, and died in Pisa. He was a leading member of the vigorous geometric school which flourished in Italy during the later years of the 19th century and the early years of the twentieth century.

Biography[edit]

Like his friend and colleague Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Bianchi studied at the Scuola Normale SuperioreinPisa under Enrico Betti, a leading differential geometer who is today best remembered for his seminal contributions to topology, and Ulisse Dini, a leading expert on function theory. Bianchi was also greatly influenced by the geometrical ideas of Bernhard Riemann and by the work on transformation groupsofSophus Lie and Felix Klein. Bianchi became a professor at the Scuola Normale SuperioreinPisa in 1896, where he spent the remainder of his career. At Pisa, his colleagues included the talented Ricci. In 1890, Bianchi and Dini supervised the dissertation of the noted analyst and geometer Guido Fubini.

In 1898, Bianchi worked out the Bianchi classification of nine possible isometry classes of three-dimensional Lie groupsofisometries of a (sufficiently symmetric) Riemannian manifold. As Bianchi knew, this is essentially the same thing as classifying, up to isomorphism, the three-dimensional real Lie algebras. This complements the earlier work of Lie himself, who had earlier classified the complex Lie algebras.

Through the influence of Luther P. Eisenhart and Abraham Haskel Taub, Bianchi's classification later came to play an important role in the development of the theory of general relativity. Bianchi's list of nine isometry classes, which can be regarded as Lie algebras, Lie groups, or as three dimensional homogeneous (possibly nonisotropic) Riemannian manifolds, are now often called collectively the Bianchi groups.

In 1902, Bianchi rediscovered[1] what are now called the Bianchi identities for the Riemann tensor, which play an even more important role in general relativity. (They are essential for understanding the Einstein field equation.) According to Tullio Levi-Civita, these identities had first been discovered by Ricci in about 1889, but Ricci apparently forgot all about the matter, which led to Bianchi's rediscovery.[2] However, the contracted Bianchi identities, which are sufficient for the proof that the divergence of the Einstein tensor always vanishes, had been published by Aurel Voss in 1880.[3]

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  1. ^ Bianchi, Luigi (1902), "Sui simboli a quattro indici e sulla curvatura di Riemann", Rend. Acc. Naz. Lincei (in Italian), 11 (5): 3–7
  • ^ T. Levi-Civita (1926). The Absolute Differential Calculus. London & Glasgow: Blackie & Son. p. 182. Where in the footnote one can read: These identities were staded without proof by PADOVA, on the strength of a verbal communication of RICCI (cf. 'Sulle deformazioni infinitesime', in Rend. della R. Acc. dei Lincei, (4), Vol. V (first half-year, 1889, p. 176). They were then forgotten even by Ricci himself. BIANCHI rediscovered them and published a proof obtained by direct calculation in 1902 (Ibid., (5), Vol. XI (first half-year, 1902, pp. 3-7).
  • ^ Voss, A. (1880), "Zur Theorie der Transformation quadratischer Differentialausdrücke und der Krümmung höherer Mannigfaltigketien", Mathematische Annalen, 16 (2): 129–178, doi:10.1007/bf01446384, S2CID 122828265
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