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Karl Schwarzschild Karl Schwarzschild: The man who solved Einstein's equations and predicted the existence of black holes (People) http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Schwarzschild.html Aleksandr Friedmann Aleksandr Friedmann: A biography with reference to contemporaries, and a list of references. (People) http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Friedmann.html Willem DeSitter Willem DeSitter: Mathematician who studied solution to general relativity and developed DeSitter space (People) http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Sitter.html Georgio Ricci-Curbastro Georgio Ricci-Curbastro: The mathematician who developed much of tensor calculus before Einstein found a use for it. (People) http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Ricci-Curbastro.html Georg Riemann Georg Riemann: Although he died before the development of general relativity, his work in non-Euclidean geometries is very important to studying a curved spacetime. (People) http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Riemann.html Hendrik Lorentz Hendrik Lorentz: Brief biography. (People) http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/%7ehistory/Mathematicians/Lorentz.html Hermann Minkowski Hermann Minkowski: A brief biography with quotations and a bibliography. (People) http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Minkowski.html Luigi Bianchi Luigi Bianchi: A mathematician who developed many theorems regarding Riemannian geometry (People) http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Bianchi.html Hermann Weyl Hermann Weyl: One of the first people to combine general relativity with the laws of electromagnetism (People) http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Weyl.html Marcel Grossmann Marcel Grossmann: A brief biography on Marcel Grossmann, a classmate of Einstein who was the first to find a connection between tensor calculus and the theory of relativity. (People) http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Grossmann.html