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Re:Who Did the Math for General Relativity First, Einstein o... by User23 on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @03:09AM (#20632560)
No mention of Hermann Minkowski[1]? As any educated mathematician knows, it was Gauss's student Riemann who solved the maths for n-dimensional manifolds, but it was Minkowski who developed modern spacetime.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Minkowski

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Re:Who Did the Math for General Relativity First, Einstein o... by debatem1 on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @03:27AM (#20632640)
Minkowski blew my mind when I fist started to understand his work. Without a doubt the most useful pieces of math I learned after multiplication, and more intuitive even than that.
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Re:Who Did the Math for General Relativity First, Einstein o... by gjm11 on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @09:02AM (#20634263)
What work in particular? Minkowski did a lot of neat things. (But I'm not sure I'd describe any of the ones I know of as more intuitive than multiplication.)
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Re:Who Did the Math for General Relativity First, Einstein o... by debatem1 on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @02:37PM (#20637552)
His work on the geometry of numbers. It was like a secret decoder ring for the language of higher math at the time, while being both elegant and tangible. Compare to multiplication, which occasionally still bears strangely shaped fruit for me even today.
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