An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Of or pertaining to Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) or his mathematics findings.

→ Riemannian geometry, → Riemannian manifold, → Riemannian metric, → Riemann problem, → Riemann curvature tensor.

See also: After the German mathematician Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866), the inventor of the elliptic form of → non-Euclidean geometry, who made important contributions to analysis and differential geometry, some of them paving the way for the later development of → general relativity.