Carlotta Longo (27 June 1895 – after 1959)[1] born Carlotta Bresolin, was an Italian mathematical physicist who wrote a doctoral dissertation in 1918 related to general relativity,[2] and then became a high school teacher in Rome.[1] Longo's thesis, advised by Tullio Levi-Civita,[3] presented what Ludwik Silberstein called a "geometrically elegant investigation" of electrostatics in general relativity.[4]

Her second marriage was to the Afro-Italian actor Lodovico Longo, who played a minor character in the film Harlem.[5][6]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Longo Carlotta". Scienza a due voci (in Italian).
  2. ^ Carlotta Longo at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Maltese, Giulio (2000). "The Late Entrance of Relativity into Italian Scientific Community (1906-1930)". Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences. 31 (1): 125–173. doi:10.2307/27757848. ISSN 0890-9997. JSTOR 27757848.
  4. ^ Silberstein, L. (January 1920). "Italian Papers on Relativity". Nature. 104 (2621): 552. doi:10.1038/104552a0. ISSN 0028-0836.
  5. ^ Martera, Luca (2021). Harlem. Il film più censurato di sempre (in Italian). La nave di Teseo. ISBN 978-8834605011.
  6. ^ Sacco, Carlo (2 May 2021). "Un film da record, un libro, un italiano di colore, una vita incredibile finita a Città della Pieve" (in Italian). CorrierePievese.