Fritz Gassmann

Fritz Gassmann
Born 1899
Died 1990 (aged 9091)
Nationality Swiss
Alma mater ETH Zurich
Known for Gassmann triple, Gassmann's equation
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics, Geophysics
Institutions ETH Zurich
Doctoral advisor George Pólya, Hermann Weyl

Fritz Gassmann (1899–1990) was a Swiss mathematician and geophysicist.

Life

His Ph.D. advisors at ETH Zurich were George Pólya and Hermann Weyl. He was a geophysics professor at the ETH Zurich.

Legacy

Gassmann is the eponym for the Gassmann triple and Gassmann's equation.

Selected publications

  • Gassmann, Fritz (1951). Über die Elastizität poröser Medien. Viertel. Naturforsch. Ges. Zürich, 96, 1 – 23. (English translation available as pdf here).
  • Gassmann, Fritz (1951). "Elastic waves through a packing of spheres". Geophysics. 16 (4): 673–685. Bibcode:1951Geop...16..673G. doi:10.1190/1.1437718.
  • Gassmann, Fritz (1926), "Bemerkungen zur vorstehenden Arbeit von Hurwitz (Über Beziehungen zwischen den Primidealen eines algebraischen Körpers und den Substitutionen seiner Gruppe)", Mathematische Zeitschrift, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 25: 665–675, doi:10.1007/BF01283860, ISSN 0025-5874

References

  • Fritz Gassmann at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  • Gerald L. Alexanderson, "The Random Walks of George Pólya". Mathematical Association of America, 1999. 303pp. ISBN 0-88385-528-3.
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