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Accomplishing this required moving beyond the traditional Riemannian framework, marking a significant advance in the mathematics used for visualization science.

From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026

Handily for Einstein, though, an old university chum, Marcel Grossmann, was an expert in Riemannian geometry, a piece of previously pure mathematics created to describe curved multi-dimensional surfaces.

From Economist • Nov. 25, 2015

Take the edge dislocations wandering through the crystal, and you find you get Riemannian geometry.

From Scientific American • Nov. 5, 2013

Little in mathematics beyond the elementary level of calculus of variations, and nothing at all about Banach algebra or Riemannian manifolds.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes