LPPM MMV "His Roommate at College"

[Dave Monroe]

MARCEL GROSSMAN
9 April 1878, Budapest
7 September 1936, Zurich

Marcel Grossmann studied mathematics at the Zurich
Polytechnikum and earned his doctorate in 1912. He was
appointed professor of descriptive geometry at the
Eidgenoossische Technische Hochschule in 1907; he was
a teacher of outstanding ability and gave many
mathematicians their training in geometry.

Marcel Grossmann was Albert Einstein's classmate When
Einstein sought to formulate mathematically his ideas
on the general theory of relativity, he turned to
Grossmann for assistance. Grossmann introduced
Einstein to the differential calculus .... The
collaboration between Einstein and Grossmann is
significantly documented in their article "Entwurf
emer verallgemeinerten Relativitatstheorie und einer
Theorie der Gravitation" in Zeit, fur Mathem. und
Phys. 62, 3 (1913)

By allowing the encounter of the mathematical
achievements of the Italian geometers and the profound
physical insight of Einstein, Marcel Grossmann
facilitated the unique synthesis of mathematical and
theoretical physics reached by Albert Einstein in the
most elegant and powerful field theory of physics: The
General Theory of Relativity.

http://www.icra.it/MG/Marcel%20Grossmann%20cv.htm

Thanks!  AND Welcome!  As MMV wasn't collected in Slow
Learner, you can find it at ...

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_mortality.html

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/vienna.html

... if you haven't done so already.  I'm using the
pagination from ...

http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/mortalityetc.pdf

Much of what we'll be getting to is at ...

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays.html

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/

... though you might want to have a copy of Gravity's
Rainbow at hand as well.  Oh, Terrance ... but this
connection is getting hearskipingly slow here, and
I've already had to recopnstruct at least one post
today as it is, so ... so as our CPU is fried, I may
or may not be able to get back to this tomorrow, but
I'll definitely put the push on Monday ...

--- rroley at naropa.net wrote:

> New to this group and haven't read MMV yet - but did
> run across the name Grossmann reading 'the fabric
> of the cosmos' last night.  There was a
> mathematition by that name who did some work with
> Einstein on the general theory of relativity.


		
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