David Lovelock

Summary

David Lovelock (born 1938) is a British theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is known for the Lovelock theory of gravity and Lovelock's theorem.[1][2][3]

David Lovelock
Born1938
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Natal (BSc, PhD)
Known for
Spouse
Fiona Armstrong
(m. 1967)
Children2
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Waterloo University of Arizona
Doctoral advisorHanno Rund
Doctoral studentsGregory Horndeski

Notes edit

  1. ^ Lovelock, D. (1971). "The Einstein tensor and its generalizations". Journal of Mathematical Physics. 12 (3): 498–502. Bibcode:1971JMP....12..498L. doi:10.1063/1.1665613. Archived from the original on 24 February 2013.
  2. ^ Lovelock, D. (1969). "The uniqueness of the Einstein field equations in a four-dimensional space". Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis. 33 (1): 54–70. Bibcode:1969ArRMA..33...54L. doi:10.1007/BF00248156.
  3. ^ Navarro, A.; Navarro, J. (2011). "Lovelock's theorem revisited". Journal of Mathematical Physics. 61 (10): 1950–1956. arXiv:1005.2386. Bibcode:2011JGP....61.1950N. doi:10.1016/j.geomphys.2011.05.004.

Books edit

  • Lovelock, David; Rund, Hanno (1989), Tensors, Differential Forms, and Variational Principles, Dover, ISBN 978-0-486-65840-7

External links edit