Fritz Gassmann

Fritz Gassmann 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. Über die Elastizität poröser Medien. Viertel. Naturforsch. Ges. Zürich, 96, 1 – 23..