Marcel Grossmann

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Marcel Grossmann

Marcel Grossmann (born April 9, 1878 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary ; † September 7, 1936 in Zurich ) was a Swiss mathematician and professor at the ETH Zurich .

Life

He attended elementary schools in Basel , then studied mathematics in Zurich and became an assistant to Otto Wilhelm Fiedler . In 1902 he was at Fiedler at the University of Zurich with a thesis the metric properties of collinear structures About doctorate . From 1901 to 1905 he was a teacher in Frauenfeld and later in Basel. In 1907 he became professor for descriptive geometry and geometry of the location at the ETH. Grossmann was a co-founder of the Swiss Mathematical Society in 1910 , of which he was also president in 1916/1917. In 1927 Grossmann had to give up his professorship due to a disease of multiple sclerosis , from which he died in Zurich in 1936.

plant

The physicist Albert Einstein was a fellow student and close friend of Grossmann. In Einstein's dissertation from April 1905 there is a dedication for Marcel Grossmann. Einstein turned to him again and again with mathematical questions, and the two also published some works together, for example B. 1913 the draft of a generalized theory of relativity and a theory of gravitation , to which Einstein contributed the physical part and Grossmann the mathematical part.

Honors

Physicists and astronomers have been meeting every three years since 1975 at the so-called Marcel Grossmann Meeting , where current developments and advances in theoretical and experimental general relativity , gravity and relativistic field theories are presented and discussed.

literature

  • Johann Jakob Burckhardt :  Großmann, Marcel Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 159 ( digitized version ).
  • Pais, Abraham : Subtle is the lord: the science and life of Albert Einstein . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1982, ISBN 0-19-853907-X .
  • A. Einstein, M. Grossmann: Draft of a generalized theory of relativity and a theory of gravitation . In: Journal of Mathematics and Physics . 62, 1913, pp. 225-261. English translation (PDF; 2.1 MB). German (PDF; 26 MB).
  • A. Einstein, M. Grossmann: Covariance properties of the field equations of the theory of gravity based on the generalized relativity theory . In: Journal of Mathematics and Physics . 63, 1914, pp. 215-225. bibcode : 1914ZMP .... 63..215E .
  • Graf-Grossmann, Claudia E., with T. Sauer, Marcel Grossmann: Out of love for mathematics , Römerhof-Verlag, Zurich, 2015, ISBN 978-3-905894-32-5
  • T. Sauer, Marcel Grossmann's contribution to the general theory of relativity , in: Proceedings of the 13th Marcel Grossmann meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories , July 2012. Edited by Robert T. Jantzen, Kjell Rosquist, Remo Ruffini. World Scientific, 2015, pp. 456–503. ( Http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.4068 )
  • Graf-Grossmann, Claudia, with T. Sauer, English translation by William D. Brewer, Marcel Grossmann: For the Love of Mathematics , Springer Biographies, 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-90076-6

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Frauenfeld, Huber, 1902, 27 pages + 3 sheets, Diss. Univ. Zurich
  2. ^ BG Teubner, Leipzig and Berlin 1913
  3. ↑ On winding paths to the general theory of relativity , NZZ, 2015-11-27.
personal data
SURNAME Grossmann, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1936
Place of death Zurich , Switzerland