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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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.
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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.
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Willem DeSitter - Mathematician who studied solution to general relativity and developed DeSitter space
Meta Description: [ Willem De Sitter (1872-1934) ]
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