Aleksotas, Suwałki Governorate, Kingdom of Poland (now in Kaunas, Lithuania)
Died
12 January 1909(1909-01-12) (aged 44)
Göttingen, German Empire
Citizenship
Russian Empire[1] or Germany
Alma mater
Albertina University of Königsberg
Known for
Geometry of numbers
Minkowski content
Minkowski diagram
Minkowski's question-mark function
Minkowski space
Work on the Diophantine approximations
Spouse
Auguste Adler
Children
2
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematics, physics, philosophy
Institutions
University of Göttingen and ETH Zurich
Doctoral advisor
Ferdinand von Lindemann
Doctoral students
Constantin Carathéodory Louis Kollros Dénes Kőnig
Signature
Special relativity
Principle of relativity
Theory of relativity
Formulations
Foundations
Einstein's postulates
Inertial frame of reference
Speed of light
Maxwell's equations
Lorentz transformation
Consequences
Time dilation
Length contraction
Relativistic mass
Mass–energy equivalence
Relativity of simultaneity
Relativistic Doppler effect
Thomas precession
Relativistic disk
Bell's spaceship paradox
Ehrenfest paradox
Spacetime
Minkowski spacetime
Spacetime diagram
World line
Light cone
Dynamics
Proper time
Proper mass
Four-momentum
History
Precursors
Galilean relativity
Galilean transformation
Aether theories
People
Einstein
Sommerfeld
Michelson
Morley
FitzGerald
Herglotz
Lorentz
Poincaré
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Fizeau
Abraham
Born
Planck
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Hermann Minkowski (/mɪŋˈkɔːfski,-ˈkɒf-/ming-KAWF-skee, -KOF-;[2]German:[mɪŋˈkɔfski]; 22 June 1864 – 12 January 1909) was a German mathematician and professor at Königsberg, Zürich and Göttingen. He created and developed the geometry of numbers and used geometrical methods to solve problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity.
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).
^Encyclopedia of Earth and Physical Sciences. New York: Marshall Cavendish. 1998. p. 1203. ISBN 9780761405511.
^"Minkowski". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
HermannMinkowski (/mɪŋˈkɔːfski, -ˈkɒf-/ ming-KAWF-skee, -KOF-; German: [mɪŋˈkɔfski]; 22 June 1864 – 12 January 1909) was a German mathematician and...
inertial frame of reference in which they are recorded. Mathematician HermannMinkowski developed it from the work of Hendrik Lorentz, Henri Poincaré, and...
Manhattan distance. It is named after the Polish mathematician HermannMinkowski. The Minkowski distance of order p {\displaystyle p} (where p {\displaystyle...
{a} \in A,\ \mathbf {b} \in B\}=A+(-B)} The concept is named for HermannMinkowski. For example, if we have two sets A and B, each consisting of three...
class of spacetime diagrams are known as Minkowski diagrams, developed by HermannMinkowski in 1908. Minkowski diagrams are two-dimensional graphs that...
In mathematical analysis, the Minkowski inequality establishes that the Lp spaces are normed vector spaces. Let S {\displaystyle S} be a measure space...
mathematics, represented by Carl Friedrich Gauss, David Hilbert and HermannMinkowski. His research has had major significance for theoretical physics as...
HermannMinkowski and father of astrophysicist Rudolph Minkowski. Born in Aleksotas, of Jewish origin, but later converted to Christianity. Minkowski...
Lorentz transformation and special theory of relativity. In 1908, HermannMinkowski presented a geometric interpretation of special relativity that fused...
information on algebraic numbers. The geometry of numbers was initiated by HermannMinkowski (1910). The geometry of numbers has a close relationship with other...
general definition of surface area was sought by Henri Lebesgue and HermannMinkowski at the turn of the twentieth century. Their work led to the development...
HermannMinkowski (1864–1909) Russian-born German mathematician and physicist, known for: Minkowski addition Minkowski–Bouligand dimension Minkowski diagram...
the three renowned mathematicians Felix Klein, David Hilbert, and HermannMinkowski. He wrote his PhD thesis on the subject of "Stability of Elastica...
The Minkowski content (named after HermannMinkowski), or the boundary measure, of a set is a basic concept that uses concepts from geometry and measure...
The Minkowski sausage or Minkowski curve is a fractal first proposed by and named for HermannMinkowski as well as its casual resemblance to a sausage...
supervisor for the doctoral theses of the mathematicians David Hilbert, HermannMinkowski, and Arnold Sommerfeld. In 1882, Lindemann published the result for...
universities. Before the Nazi rise to power, some Jewish mathematicians like HermannMinkowski and Edmund Landau had achieved success and even were appointed to...
the first to point out its reciprocity or symmetry. Subsequently, HermannMinkowski (1907) introduced the concept of proper time which further clarified...
dates to non-Euclidean geometry of the 19th century and is due to HermannMinkowski. In the two-dimensional real coordinate space R 2 , {\displaystyle...