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Elwin Bruno Christoffel
Elwin Bruno Christoffel
(; November 10, 1829 – March 15, 1900) was a
German
mathematician
and
physicist
. He introduced fundamental concepts of
differential geometry
, opening the way for the development of
tensor calculus
, which would later provide the mathematical basis for
general relativity
.
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