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Hermann Minkowski
Hermann Minkowski was a mathematician and professor at the University of Königsberg, ETH Zürich, and the University of Göttingen, described variously as German, Polish, Lithuanian-German, or Russian. 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.
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science · German mathematician and physicist (1864–1909) · physicist · mathematician · university teacher · also Hermann Minkowski, Minkowski, Herman Minkowski
Born 22 June 1864 · Died 12 January 1909 · Q57246
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1923· 1 entry
(Methuen); reprinted New York 1952 (Dover) entitled H
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1909· 5 entries
Died 1909-01-12.
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“Oh, that Einstein, always cutting lectures... I really would not believe him capable of it.”
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“It came as a tremendous surprise, for in his student days Einstein had been a lazy dog... He never bothered about mathematics at all.”
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“[Zurich,] where the students, even the most capable among them, ... are accustomed to get everything spoon-fed.”
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“The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity.”
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1905· 1 entry
Along with the previous work of Lorentz and Poincaré, could best be understood in a four-dimensional space, since known as the "Minkowski spacetime", in which time and space are not separated entities but intermingled in
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1902· 1 entry
Joined the Mathematics Department of Göttingen University and became a close colleague of David Hilbert, whom he first met at university in Königsberg
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1897· 1 entry
With whom he had two daughters; the electrical engineer and inventor Reinhold Rudenberg was his son-in-law
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1896· 1 entry
Presented his geometry of numbers, a geometrical method that solved problems in number theory
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1885· 2 entries
Under the direction of Ferdinand von Lindemann
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Studied at University of Königsberg, Doctor (1880–1885).
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1884· 1 entry
Studied at Frederick William University Berlin (1883–1884).
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1883· 1 entry
While still a student at Königsberg, he was awarded the Mathematics Prize of the French Academy of Sciences for his manuscript on the theory of quadratic forms
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1882· 1 entry
Awarded Grand prix des sciences mathématiques (1882).
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1880· 1 entry
Studied at Altstadt Gymnasium (1872–1880).
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1872· 1 entry
Where the father became involved in rag export and later in manufacture of mechanical clockwork tin toys (he operated his firm Lewin Minkowski & Son with his eldest son Max)
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1864· 1 entry
Born 1864-06-22.
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