Fritz Gassmann

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).

References

• Gerald L. Alexanderson, "The Random Walks of George Pólya". Mathematical Association of America, 1999. 303pp. .

External links

• ETH Zurich Webpage
• 1951 Photo