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Fritz Gassmann

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Nationality
  
Swiss

Died
  
1990, Zurich, Switzerland

Institutions
  
ETH Zurich

Education
  
ETH Zurich

Alma mater
  
ETH Zurich

Fields
  
Mathematics, Geophysics

Name
  
Fritz Gassmann


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Known for
  
Gassmann triple, Gassmann's equation

Doctoral advisor
  
George Polya, Hermann Weyl

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

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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, ISSN 0025-5874, doi:10.1007/BF01283860 

    • References

    Fritz Gassmann Wikipedia
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