Talk:List of contributors to general relativity

Which Segre ?
Is it Carrado Segre, Beniamino Segre or the one cited ? 'Segre type (characteristic) has to do with matrices/linear maps; the one cited, Emilio, doesn't seem to have studied this area (AFAIK), but the other two have (Emilio was really a physicist, and the other two were mathematicians: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Indexes/S.html). Also, I know of at least two (living mathematical relativity) researchers who use Segre types regularly and are convinced that it's never spelt with that funny symbol (accent?) over the 'e'. All the linear algebra textbooks spell 'Segre' like that (without the accent thingy). Any views on this ? ---Mpatel (talk) 18:15, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

I think it's Carrado Segre. See, for example, reference 4 (and note the date of Segre's paper) in which rules out Emilio Segre. Last chance to debate this - I'll wait 6 hours. ---Mpatel (talk) 11:18, August 10, 2005 (UTC)


 * Hi, M, good catch--- it IS Corrado Segre. I've created a stubby biography, added the links to the Segre classification article, and added the citation to the original paper to the latter.


 * Hi Chris (I assume it's you). Yes, had to do a bit of digging to sort this one out - poor Corrado finally gets the recognition he deserves. I've sorted out the accents on the affected pages. --Mpatel (talk) 16:52, August 10, 2005 (UTC)