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Originally Posted by AntonioLao  He would have been the first to formulate the principle of general relativity but unfortunately his life was cut short by tuberculosis. |
Not sure I agree with you on this point. Yes, Riemann invented the tools for the study of general relativity, but he was a pure mathematician. I'm not sure whether he would have made the conceptual leap that Einstein did in identifying the curvature of spacetime with gravity.