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).