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Aleksandr Friedmann
http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Friedmann.html
A biography with reference to contemporaries, and a list of references.

Georg Riemann
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Riemann.html
Although he died before the development of general relativity, his work in non-Euclidean geometries is very important to studying a curved spacetime.

Georgio Ricci-Curbastro
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Ricci-Curbastro.html
The mathematician who developed much of tensor calculus before Einstein found a use for it.

Hendrik Lorentz
http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/%7ehistory/Mathematicians/Lorentz.html
Brief biography.

Hermann Minkowski
http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Minkowski.html
A brief biography with quotations and a bibliography.

Hermann Weyl
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Weyl.html
One of the first people to combine general relativity with the laws of electromagnetism

Karl Schwarzschild
http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Schwarzschild.html
A brief biography with reference to contemporary mathematicians and theories.

Karl Schwarzschild
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Schwarzschild.html
The man who solved Einstein's equations and predicted the existence of black holes

Luigi Bianchi
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Bianchi.html
A mathematician who developed many theorems regarding Riemannian geometry

Marcel Grossmann
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Grossmann.html
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.

Willem DeSitter
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Sitter.html
Mathematician who studied solution to general relativity and developed DeSitter space

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