Fritz Gassmann

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Fritz Gassmann
Born	1899
Died	1990 (aged 90–91)
Nationality	Swiss
Alma mater	ETH Zurich
Known for	Gassmann triple, Gassmann's equation
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics, Geophysics
Institutions	ETH Zurich
Doctoral advisor	George Pólya, Hermann Weyl

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, 25, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg: 665–675, doi:10.1007/BF01283860, ISSN 0025-5874, S2CID 119971823

• Fritz Gassmann at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Gerald L. Alexanderson, "The Random Walks of George Pólya". Mathematical Association of America, 1999. 303pp. ISBN 0-88385-528-3.

• ETH Zurich Webpage
• 1951 Photo