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Christoffel is a
Dutch and
Afrikaans cognate of the
masculine given name Christopher.
Short forms include Chris, Christie, Kristof, and Stoffel. Christoffel...
- In
mathematics and physics, the
Christoffel symbols are an
array of
numbers describing a
metric connection. The
metric connection is a specialization...
- Hans
Jakob Christoffel von
Grimmelshausen (1621/22 – 17
August 1676) was a
German author. He is best
known for his 1669
picaresque novel Simplicius Simplicissimus...
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Elwin Bruno Christoffel (German: [kʁɪˈstɔfl̩]; 10
November 1829 – 15
March 1900) was a
German mathematician and physicist. He
introduced fundamental concepts...
- In
complex analysis, a Schwarz–
Christoffel mapping is a
conformal map of the
upper half-plane or the
complex unit disk onto the
interior of a
simple polygon...
- the
Riemann curvature tensor or Riemann–
Christoffel tensor (after
Bernhard Riemann and
Elwin Bruno Christoffel) is the most
common way used to express...
- The Christoffelberg, also
known as Mt
Christoffel or Mt St
Christoffel,
named after Saint Christopher, is the
highest point on Curaçao. The Christoffelberg...
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Hendrik Christoffel "Henk" van de
Hulst (19
November 1918 – 31 July 2000) was a
Dutch astronomer. In 1944,
while a
student in Utrecht, he
predicted the...
- In
general relativity and
tensor calculus, the
contracted Bianchi identities are: ∇ ρ R ρ μ = 1 2 ∇ μ R {\displaystyle \nabla _{\rho }{R^{\rho }}_{\mu...
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Christoffel F.
Hendrik Wiese (born 10
September 1941) is a
South African businessman and billionaire. His
source of
wealth is
consumer retail.
Wiese was...
