Fritz Gassmann

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Fritz Gassmann
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Born1899
Died1990 (aged 90–91)
NationalitySwiss
Alma materETH Zurich
Known forGassmann triple, Gassmann's equation
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, Geophysics
InstitutionsETH Zurich
Doctoral advisorGeorge 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, 25, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg: 665–675, doi:10.1007/BF01283860, ISSN 0025-5874, S2CID 119971823

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