Word: riemann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abler mathematicians than he. But from a very few observations-the constancy of light's speed in space and the equivalence of gravitational mass and inertia-he divined how the cosmos was made. He did not, like Newton, invent mathematics to describe it but borrowed the mathematics of Riemann, Fitzgerald, Lorentz and Minkowski...