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.

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.