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A people is a group of individuals who belong to and function within a particular society. In common usage, the term people may be synonymous with human, or otherwise may carry an exclusive meaning. In general, the word people is a collective noun used to define a specific group of humans. However, when used to refer to a group of humans possessing a common ethnic, cultural or national unitary characteristic or identity, "people" is a singular noun, and as such takes an "s" in the plural; (example: "the English-speaking peoples of the world").
The concept of personhood (who is a person within a society) is the fundamental component of any selective concept of people. A distinction is maintained in philosophy and law between the notions "human being", or "man", and "person". The former refers to the species, while the latter refers to a rational agent (see, for example, John Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding II 27 and Immanuel Kant's Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals).
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Limit curve theorems in Lorentzian geometry
E. Minguzzi The subject of limit curve theorems in Lorentzian geometry is reviewed. A general limit curve theorem is formulated, which includes the case of converging curves with endpoints and the case in which the limit points assigned since the beginning are one, two, or at most denumerable. Some applications ... [J. Math. Phys. 49, 092501 (2008)] published Mon Sep 8, 2008.
Aleksandr Friedmann - A biography with reference to contemporaries, and a list of references.
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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.
Meta Description: [ Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) ]
Georgio Ricci-Curbastro - The mathematician who developed much of tensor calculus before Einstein found a use for it.
Meta Description: [ Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (1853-1925) ]
Hendrik Lorentz - Brief biography.
Meta Description: [ Hendrik Lorentz (1853-1928) ]
Hermann Minkowski - A brief biography with quotations and a bibliography.
Meta Description: [ Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909) ]
Hermann Weyl - One of the first people to combine general relativity with the laws of electromagnetism
Meta Description: [ Hermann Weyl (1885-1955) ]
Karl Schwarzschild - A brief biography with reference to contemporary mathematicians and theories.
Meta Description: [ Karl Schwarzschild (1873-1916) ]
Karl Schwarzschild - The man who solved Einstein's equations and predicted the existence of black holes
Luigi Bianchi - A mathematician who developed many theorems regarding Riemannian geometry
Meta Description: [ Luigi Bianchi (1856-1928) ]
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.
Meta Description: [ Marcel Grossmann (1878-1936) ]
Southampton GR Explorer - An introduction to Einstein's theory of General Relativity and related topics. Includes text, pictures and movies.
Meta Description: [ Applied Mathematics Home Page ]
Willem DeSitter - Mathematician who studied solution to general relativity and developed DeSitter space
Meta Description: [ Willem De Sitter (1872-1934) ]
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