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Hermann Minkowski

Hermann Minkowski (/mɪŋˈkɔːfski, -ˈkɒf-/ ming-KAWF-skee, -⁠KOF-;[2] German: [mɪŋˈkɔfski]; 22 June 1864 – 12 January 1909) was a mathematician and professor at Königsberg, Zürich and Göttingen, described variously as German,[3][4][5] Polish,[6][7][8] or Lithuanian-German,[9] or Russian.[1] He created and developed the geometry of numbers and elements of convex geometry, and used geometrical methods to solve problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity.

Hermann Minkowski

(1864-06-22)22 June 1864

Aleksotas, Suwałki Governorate, Kingdom of Poland (now in Kaunas, Lithuania)

12 January 1909(1909-01-12) (aged 44)

Göttingen, German Empire

Russian Empire[1] or Germany

Albertina University of Königsberg

Auguste Adler

2

Mathematics, physics, philosophy

University of Göttingen and ETH Zurich

Ferdinand von Lindemann

Constantin Carathéodory
Louis Kollros
Dénes Kőnig

Minkowski is perhaps best known for his foundational work describing space and time as a four-dimensional space, now known as "Minkowski spacetime", which facilitated geometric interpretations of Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity (1905).

Minkowski, Hermann (1915) [1907]. . Annalen der Physik. 352 (15): 927–938. Bibcode:1915AnP...352..927M. doi:10.1002/andp.19153521505.

"Das Relativitätsprinzip"

"Die Grundgleichungen für die elektromagnetischen Vorgänge in bewegten Körpern" 

"Raum und Zeit" 

Blumenthal O. (ed): Das Relativitätsprinzip, Leipzig 1913, 1923 (Teubner), Engl tr (W. Perrett & G. B. Jeffrey) The Principle of Relativity London 1923 (Methuen); reprinted New York 1952 (Dover) entitled , Albert Einstein, Hermann Minkowski, and Hermann Weyl, The Principle of Relativity: A Collection of Original Memoirs.

H. A. Lorentz

Space and Time – Minkowski's Papers on Relativity, Minkowski Institute Press, 2012  978-0-9879871-3-6 (free ebook).

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at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

Hermann Minkowski