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Marcel Grossmann (April 9, 1878 – September 7, 1936) was a Swiss mathematician and a friend and classmate of Albert Einstein. Grossmann was a member of an old Swiss family from Zürich. His father managed a textile factory.
Nov 16, 2015 · Marcel Grossmann (left) and Michele Besso (right), university friends of Albert Einstein (centre), both made important contributions to general relativity.
- Michel Janssen, Jürgen Renn
- 2015
Albert Einstein and Marcel Grossmann collaborated in their search for a relativistic theory of gravitation in the years 1912–1914. Famously, Grossmann introduced Einstein to the tools of tensor calculus, but the two friends did not succeed in finding the correct gravitational field equations.
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After Einstein and Grossmann graduated in 1900 they continued their friendship. Einstein was looking for position and Grossmann wrote to him on 13 April 1901 telling him that his father, who was a friend of the Director of the Patent Office in Bern, had recommended Einstein for the next vacancy.
This article reviews the biography of the Swiss mathematician Marcel Grossmann (1878–1936) and his contributions to the emergence of the general theory of relativity. The first part is his biography, while the second part reviews his collaboration with Einstein in Zurich which resulted in the Einstein-Grossmann theory of 1913.
In 1955 Einstein wrote his short Autobiographical Sketch dedicated mainly to his relations with his close friend Marcel Grossmann. In this Skizze Einstein told the story of his collaboration with Grossman which led to the Einstein-Grossmann theory.
This familial biography reveals the enduring influence of Marcel Grossmann, a close friend of Einstein, who helped him formulate general relativity.
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