Fritz Gassmann

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

Fritz Gassmann
Born1899
Died1990 (aged 9091)
NationalitySwiss
Alma materETH Zurich
Known forGassmann triple, Gassmann's equation
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, Geophysics
InstitutionsETH Zurich
Doctoral advisorGeorge Pólya, Hermann Weyl

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
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