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  • Introduction

  • Kirill Krasnov, University of Nottingham
  • Book:
    Formulations of General Relativity
    Published online:
    06 November 2020
    Print publication:
    26 November 2020, pp 1-7

  • Summary

    Historical introduction into the topic of formulations of General Relativity with their associated mathematical formalisms. We review the history of the idea that gravity is geometry, as well as the history of development of main geometical ideas of modern differential geometry. We start with metric geometry of Riemann, Levi and Civita, and describe the main contributions of Cartan. We touch upon the fact that spinors and differential forms are closely related, first observed by Chevalley. We give arguments for why formalisms based on differential forms may be superrior to the metric one.