Fritz Gassmann
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Fritz Gassmann 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.
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
mathematician and geophysicist. Gassmann is the eponym for the Gassmann triple
Gassmann triple
In mathematics, a Gassmann triple is a group G together with two faithful actions on sets X and Y, such that X and Y are not isomorphic as G-sets but every element of G has the same number of fixed points on X and Y...
and Gassmann's equation. His Ph.D. advisors at ETH Zurich
ETH Zurich
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich or ETH Zürich is an engineering, science, technology, mathematics and management university in the City of Zurich, Switzerland....
were George Polya
George Pólya
George Pólya was a Hungarian mathematician. He was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Zürich and from 1940 to 1953 at Stanford University. He made fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory...
and Hermann Weyl
Hermann Weyl
Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl was a German mathematician and theoretical physicist. Although much of his working life was spent in Zürich, Switzerland and then Princeton, he is associated with the University of Göttingen tradition of mathematics, represented by David Hilbert and Hermann Minkowski.His...
. 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).