Hermann Minkowski (/mɪŋˈkɔːfski, -ˈkɒf-/ ming-KAWF-skee, -⁠KOF-; German: [mɪŋˈkɔfski]; 22 June 1864 – 12 January 1909) was a mathematician and professor...

inertial frame of reference in which they are recorded. Mathematician Hermann Minkowski developed it from the work of Hendrik Lorentz, Henri Poincaré, and...

Manhattan distance. It is named after the Polish mathematician Hermann Minkowski. The Minkowski distance of order p {\displaystyle p} (where p {\displaystyle...

In geometry, the Minkowski sum of two sets of position vectors A and B in Euclidean space is formed by adding each vector in A to each vector in B: A...

Hermann Minkowski and father of astrophysicist Rudolph Minkowski. Born in Aleksotas, of Jewish origin, but later converted to Christianity. Minkowski...

class of spacetime diagrams are known as Minkowski diagrams, developed by Hermann Minkowski in 1908. Minkowski diagrams are two-dimensional graphs that...

) {\textstyle (X,d)} . It is named after the Polish mathematician Hermann Minkowski and the French mathematician Georges Bouligand. To calculate this...

In mathematical analysis, the Minkowski inequality establishes that the Lp spaces are normed vector spaces. Let S {\textstyle S} be a measure space, let...

mathematics, represented by Carl Friedrich Gauss, David Hilbert and Hermann Minkowski. His research has had major significance for theoretical physics as...

Henri Poincaré (1905), was first defined by Hermann Minkowski (1908) as the isometry group of Minkowski spacetime. It is a ten-dimensional non-abelian...

Lorentz transformation and special theory of relativity. In 1908, Hermann Minkowski presented a geometric interpretation of special relativity that fused...

these lattices provides fundamental information on algebraic numbers. Hermann Minkowski (1896) initiated this line of research at the age of 26 in his work...

Euclidean space. The original version of the Brunn–Minkowski theorem (Hermann Brunn 1887; Hermann Minkowski 1896) applied to convex sets; the generalization...

Abraham–Minkowski controversy is a physics debate concerning electromagnetic momentum within dielectric media. Two equations were first suggested by Hermann Minkowski...

Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909) Russian-born German mathematician and physicist, known for: Minkowski addition Minkowski–Bouligand dimension Minkowski diagram...

supervisor for the doctoral theses of the mathematicians David Hilbert, Hermann Minkowski, and Arnold Sommerfeld. In 1882, Lindemann published the result for...

\mathbb {Z} ^{n}} that is not the origin). The theorem was proved by Hermann Minkowski in 1889 and became the foundation of the branch of number theory called...

the three renowned mathematicians Felix Klein, David Hilbert, and Hermann Minkowski. He wrote his PhD thesis on the subject of the stability of elastic...

mathematics, in the field of functional analysis, a Minkowski functional (after Hermann Minkowski) or gauge function is a function that recovers a notion...

The Minkowski sausage or Minkowski curve is a fractal first proposed by and named for Hermann Minkowski as well as its casual resemblance to a sausage...

driver Hermann Löhr (1871–1943), English composer Hermann Maier, Austrian skier Hermann Merkin (1907–1999), Jewish–American businessman Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909)...

German-American astronomer. Minkowski was the son of Marie Johanna Siegel and physiologist Oskar Minkowski. His uncle was Hermann Minkowski, a mathematician and...

mathematics, Minkowski's question-mark function, denoted ?(x), is a function with unusual fractal properties, defined by Hermann Minkowski in 1904. It...

general definition of surface area was sought by Henri Lebesgue and Hermann Minkowski at the turn of the twentieth century. Their work led to the development...

theorem was proved in the case of the field of rational numbers by Hermann Minkowski and generalized to number fields by Helmut Hasse. The same statement...

universities. Before the Nazi rise to power, some Jewish mathematicians like Hermann Minkowski and Edmund Landau had achieved success and even were appointed to...

dates to non-Euclidean geometry of the 19th century and is due to Hermann Minkowski. In the two-dimensional real coordinate space R 2 {\displaystyle \mathbb...

(1856–1928) – differential geometry Alicia Boole Stott (1860–1940) Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909) – non-Euclidean geometry Henry Frederick Baker (1866–1956)...

In mathematics, Minkowski's first inequality for convex bodies is a geometrical result due to the German mathematician Hermann Minkowski. The inequality...

the first to point out its reciprocity or symmetry. Subsequently, Hermann Minkowski (1907) introduced the concept of proper time which further clarified...