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    Hermann Minkowski (/mɪŋˈkɔːfski, -ˈkɒf-/ ming-KAWF-skee, -⁠KOF-; German: [mɪŋˈkɔfski]; 22 June 1864 – 12 January 1909) was a mathematician and professor...
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    inertial frame of reference in which they are recorded. Mathematician Hermann Minkowski developed it from the work of Hendrik Lorentz, Henri Poincaré, and...
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    Manhattan distance. It is named after the Polish mathematician Hermann Minkowski. The Minkowski distance of order p {\displaystyle p} (where p {\displaystyle...
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    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...
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    Hermann Minkowski and father of astrophysicist Rudolph Minkowski. Born in Aleksotas, of Jewish origin, but later converted to Christianity. Minkowski...
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    ) {\textstyle (X,d)} . It is named after the Polish mathematician Hermann Minkowski and the French mathematician Georges Bouligand. To calculate this...
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  • In mathematical analysis, the Minkowski inequality establishes that the Lp spaces are normed vector spaces. Let S {\textstyle S} be a measure space, let...
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  • Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909) Russian-born German mathematician and physicist, known for: Minkowski addition Minkowski–Bouligand dimension Minkowski diagram...
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    mathematics, represented by Carl Friedrich Gauss, David Hilbert and Hermann Minkowski. His research has had major significance for theoretical physics as...
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    class of spacetime diagrams are known as Minkowski diagrams, developed by Hermann Minkowski in 1908. Minkowski diagrams are two-dimensional graphs that...
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    Henri Poincaré (1905), was first defined by Hermann Minkowski (1908) as the isometry group of Minkowski spacetime. It is a ten-dimensional non-abelian...
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    Lorentz transformation and special theory of relativity. In 1908, Hermann Minkowski presented a geometric interpretation of special relativity that fused...
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  • Abraham–Minkowski controversy is a physics debate concerning electromagnetic momentum within dielectric media. Two equations were first suggested by Hermann Minkowski...
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    supervisor for the doctoral theses of the mathematicians David Hilbert, Hermann Minkowski, and Arnold Sommerfeld. In 1882, Lindemann published the result for...
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    \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...
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  • German-American astronomer. Minkowski was the son of Marie Johanna Siegel and physiologist Oskar Minkowski. His uncle was Hermann Minkowski, a mathematician and...
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  • Euclidean space. The original version of the Brunn–Minkowski theorem (Hermann Brunn 1887; Hermann Minkowski 1896) applied to convex sets; the generalization...
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    these lattices provides fundamental information on algebraic numbers. Hermann Minkowski (1896) initiated this line of research at the age of 26 in his work...
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    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...
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  • driver Hermann Löhr (1871–1943), English composer Hermann Maier, Austrian skier Hermann Merkin (1907–1999), Jewish–American businessman Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909)...
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    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...
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  • universities. Before the Nazi rise to power, some Jewish mathematicians like Hermann Minkowski and Edmund Landau had achieved success and even were appointed to...
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    the three renowned mathematicians Felix Klein, David Hilbert, and Hermann Minkowski. He wrote his PhD thesis on the subject of the stability of elastic...
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    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...
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    mathematics, Minkowski's question-mark function, denoted ?(x), is a function with unusual fractal properties, defined by Hermann Minkowski in 1904. It...
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  • In differential geometry, the Minkowski problem, named after Hermann Minkowski, asks for the construction of a strictly convex compact surface S whose...
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    which he studied under the famous mathematicians József Kürschák and Hermann Minkowski. He then received his doctorate in 1907 due to his dissertation in...
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    (1856–1928) – differential geometry Alicia Boole Stott (1860–1940) Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909) – non-Euclidean geometry Henry Frederick Baker (1866–1956)...
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    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...
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    "point" to be any sequence of coordinates (x1, ..., xn). In 1908, Hermann Minkowski presented a paper consolidating the role of time as the fourth dimension...
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