Marcel Grossmann | |
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Born | |
Died | September 7, 1936 Zürich, Switzerland | (aged 58)
Citizenship | Swiss-Hungarian |
Alma mater | Federal Polytechnic School |
Awards | Honorary member (1935) of the Swiss Mathematical Society[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Doctoral advisor | Wilhelm Fiedler |
Marcel Grossmann (April 9, 1878 – September 7, 1936)[2] was a Swiss mathematician who was a friend and classmate of Albert Einstein. Grossmann came from an old Swiss family in Zürich. His father managed a textile factory. He became a Professor of Mathematics at the Federal Polytechnic School in Zürich, today the ETH Zurich, specializing in descriptive geometry.