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Marcel Grossmann (April 9, 1878 – September 7, 1936) [2] 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. He became a Professor of Mathematics at the Federal Polytechnic School in Zürich, today the ETH Zurich ...
- Honorary member (1935) of the Swiss Mathematical Society
- September 7, 1936 (aged 58), Zurich, Switzerland
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.
Abstract. 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.
7 September 1936. Zürich, Switzerland. Summary. Marcel Grossmann was a Swiss mathematician and a friend and collaborator of Einstein. View three larger pictures. Biography. Marcel Grossmann's parents were Jules Grossmann and Katharina Henriette Lichtenhahn. Marcel had a brother named Eugen.
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In 1912, Einstein’s friend, mathematician Marcel Grossman, introduced him to the tensor analysis of Bernhard Riemann, Tullio Levi-Civita, and Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, which allowed him to express the laws of physics in the same way in different coordinate systems.
Marcel Grossmann. Albert Einstein. 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 biograph...
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