Fritz Gassmann

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Mathematician

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1899(Zürich, Switzerland)

Death:

1990

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

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

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

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