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Marcel Grossmann
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Key facts
- Born
- Grossmann Marcell , ( 1878-04-09 ) April 9, 1878, Budapest , Austria-Hungary
- Died
- September 7, 1936 (1936-09-07) (aged 58), Zürich , Switzerland
- Alma mater
- Federal Polytechnic School
- Awards
- Honorary member (1935) of the Swiss Mathematical Society
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Doctoral advisor
- Wilhelm Fiedler
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Marcel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Switzerland
- Place of birth
- Budapest
- Place of death
- Zurich
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- ETH Zurich
- Employer
- ETH Zurich
- Languages spoken
- German
- Field of work
- non-Euclidean geometry
- Image
- ETH-BIB-Grossmann, Marcel (1878-1936)-Portrait-Portr 01239.tif (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1878-04-09
- date of death
- 1936-09-07
- cause of death
- multiple sclerosis
- Commons category
- Marcel Grossmann
- Erdős number
- 3
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Marcel Grossmann
- member of
- Swiss Mathematical Society
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- descriptive geometry
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Encyclopedic overview
Marcel Grossmann (Hungarian: Grossmann Marcell; April 9, 1878 – September 7, 1936) 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.
Grossmann was born to a Jewish family in Budapest.
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