Marcel Grossmann

Marcel Grossmann (April 9, 1878 – September 7, 1936)[2] was a Swiss mathematician who was a friend and classmate of Albert Einstein.He became a Professor of Mathematics at the Federal Polytechnic School in Zürich, today the ETH Zurich, specializing in descriptive geometry.In 1902, he earned his doctorate from the University of Zurich with the thesis Ueber die metrischen Eigenschaften kollinearer Gebilde (translated On the Metrical Properties of Collinear Structures) with Fiedler as advisor.Grossmann introduced Einstein to the absolute differential calculus, started by Elwin Bruno Christoffel[10] and fully developed by Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro and Tullio Levi-Civita.Past individual winners include Shing-Tung Yau, Tsung-Dao Lee, Christine Jones Forman and Stephen Hawking.
BudapestAustria-HungaryZürichFederal Polytechnic SchoolMathematicsDoctoral advisorWilhelm FiedlermathematicianAlbert EinsteinProfessorETH Zurichdescriptive geometrynon-Euclidean geometryUniversity of ZurichSwiss Mathematical SocietyCambridgeStrasbourgdifferential geometrytensor calculusRiemannian geometryelliptic geometrygeneral theory of relativityAbraham Paistensor absolute differential calculusElwin Bruno ChristoffelGregorio Ricci-CurbastroTullio Levi-Civitamultiple sclerosisInternational Center for Relativistic AstrophysicsMarcel Grossmann AwardsPlanckInstitut des Hautes Etudes ScientifiqueShing-Tung YauTsung-Dao LeeChristine Jones FormanStephen HawkingHistory of general relativityTimeline of gravitational physics and relativityKollros, LouisBibcodeOxford University PressRobertson, Edmund F.MacTutor History of Mathematics ArchiveUniversity of St AndrewsMathematics Genealogy Project