Grossmann

Marcel Grossmann

Born: 9 April 1878 in Budapest, Hungary
Died: 7 Sept 1936 in Zurich, Switzerland

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Grossmann attended school in Basel then studied mathematics at Zurich. In 1900 he became an assistant to the geometer W Fiedler in Zurich.

Grossmann obtained his doctorate from Zurich in 1912, then became a teacher in a school in Frauenfeld, northern Switzerland, in 1901 and in Basel in 1905. He became professor of descriptive geometry at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich in 1907.

Grossmann was a classmate of Einstein. Einstein turned to him for help with the mathematical formulation of the theory of general relativity. Grossmann discovered the relevance of the tensor calculus of Christoffel, Ricci and Levi-Civita to relativity.

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References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. L Kollros, Prof. Dr. Marcel Grossmann, Verhandlungen der Schweizerischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft 118 (1937), 325-329. 
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