Tullio Levi-Civita (1873–1941) developed and extended the tensor calculus, originally formulated by Ricci, which plays a central role in the theory of general relativity and in differential geometry. In 1938 Levi-Civita was removed from his professorship at the University of Rome because of his being Jewish. (M 38201) _ _.
Discovered on 10-2-1997 in Prescott by Comba, P. G.