Fritz Gassmann

Fritz Gassmann
Born	1899
Died	1990 (aged 90–91)
Nationality	Swiss
Fields	Mathematics, Geophysics
Institutions	ETH Zurich
Alma mater	ETH Zurich
Doctoral advisor	George Polya, Hermann Weyl
Known for	Gassmann triple, Gassmann's equation

Fritz Gassmann (1899–1990) was a Swiss mathematician and geophysicist. Gassmann is the eponym for the Gassmann triple and Gassmann's equation. His Ph.D. advisors at ETH Zurich were George Polya and Hermann Weyl. He was a geophysics professor at the ETH Zurich.

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, ISSN 0025-5874, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01283860

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.

Persondata
Name	Gassmann, Fritz
Alternative names
Short description	Mathematician
Date of birth	1899
Place of birth
Date of death	1990
Place of death

Fritz Gassmann

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