Sulla storia delle coordinate di Fermi (On the history of Fermi's coordinates)
Résumé
A very brief historical account of the so-called Fermi’s coordinates and
their role in differential geometry and mathematical physics, is then followed by an
attempt to identify the conceptual background and the physical motivations from
which such coordinates originated, through the analysis of the original Enrico
Fermi’s works from which, in particular, the crucial role played by a series of
Tullio Levi-Civita’s works achieved between 1917 and 1919, stands out.