Judith R. Goodstein. Einstein’s Italian Mathematicians: Ricci, Levi-Civita, and the Birth of General Relativity. xvii + 211 pp., bibl., notes, index. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, 2018. $35 . ISBN 9781470428464 [Book Review]

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