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Marcel Grossmann

1878 - 1936

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marcel Grossmann is the 240th most popular mathematician (down from 173rd in 2019), the 151st most popular biography from Hungary (down from 117th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Hungarian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Marcel Grossmann ranks 240 out of 1,004. Before him are Joseph Petzval, Michael Atiyah, Callippus, Michel Chasles, Richard S. Hamilton, and Giovanni Ceva. After him are Ahmes, Ibn al-Shatir, Xu Guangqi, Ernst Zermelo, Abū Sahl al-Qūhī, and Vergilius of Salzburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Marcel Grossmann ranks 43. Before him are Eileen Gray, Elizabeth Arden, Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Clemens August Graf von Galen, Kōki Hirota, and Yakov Yurovsky. After him are Arthur Scherbius, Abdelaziz of Morocco, Georg Kaiser, Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria, Stepan Shaumian, and P. D. Ouspensky. Among people deceased in 1936, Marcel Grossmann ranks 53. Before him are Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh, José Sanjurjo, Bertha Pappenheim, Robert Michels, Duan Qirui, and Anna Boch. After him are Kikunae Ikeda, Gyula Gömbös, Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, Infante Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime, Basil Zaharoff, and Carl Stumpf.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Marcel Grossmann ranks 151 out of 1,077. Before him are András Schiff (1953), Piali Pasha (1515), Nikolaus Lenau (1802), Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (1831), Brassaï (1899), and Ephraim Kishon (1924). After him are Yolanda of Poland (1235), György Sárosi (1912), Béla Miklós (1890), Gusztáv Sebes (1906), Hans Richter (1843), and Susan Polgár (1969).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Hungary

Among mathematicians born in Hungary, Marcel Grossmann ranks 6. Before him are John von Neumann (1903), Paul Erdős (1913), John G. Kemeny (1926), George Pólya (1887), and Peter Lax (1926). After him are Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930), Klára Dán von Neumann (1911), László Lovász (1948), Frigyes Riesz (1880), Paul Halmos (1916), and Endre Szemerédi (1940).

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