Talk:Bishop–Gromov inequality

After whom is this named? Mikhail Gromov is clear, but who was/is Bishop? Also, what's the Levy-Gromov inequality? Lupo 14:44, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Is it Richard L. Bishop? Lupo 08:48, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes: the one famous for the Bishop comparison theorem. Geometry guy 17:05, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ambiguity in notation for Ricci curvature?[edit]

The notation of the article is ambiguous with respect to the "Ricci curvature". As far as I understand it, the article is referring to the Ricci cuvature function and not the scalar curvature. In the article on Ricci curvature $\operatorname {Ric} (\xi ,\xi )$ is used for the Ricci curvature function. This makes it more clear that it is a function of direction $\xi$ and not a scalar. Penguian (talk) 07:09, 2 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]