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Hermann Minkowski (/ m ɪ ŋ ˈ k ɔː f s k i,-ˈ k ɒ f-/ ming-KAWF-skee, - KOF-; [2] German: [mɪŋˈkɔfski]; 22 June 1864 – 12 January 1909) was a mathematician and professor at the University of Königsberg, the University of Zürich, and the University of Göttingen, described variously as German, [3] [4] [5] Polish, [6] [7] [8] Lithuanian-German, [9] or Russian. [1]
Late in 1907, his former mathematics professor, Hermann Minkowski, presented an alternative, geometric interpretation of special relativity in a lecture to the Göttingen Mathematical society, introducing the concept of spacetime.
Göttingen was, along with Berlin, one of Germany's two main centers for mathematical research. [1] Prior to Nazi rule, the University of Göttingen already had an illustrious mathematics tradition that included distinguished mathematicians like Gauss, Riemann, David Hilbert, Dirichlet, Hermann Minkowski and Felix Klein.
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Hermann Minkowski Poincaré's attempt of a four-dimensional reformulation of the new mechanics was not continued by himself, [ 54 ] so it was Hermann Minkowski (1907), who worked out the consequences of that notion (other contributions were made by Roberto Marcolongo (1906) and Richard Hargreaves (1908) [ 88 ] ).
In chapter 9 of this book, Logunov points out that Poincaré's second paper was the first one to formulate a complete theory of relativistic dynamics, containing the correct relativistic analogue of Newton's F=ma. On p. 142, Logunov points out that Einstein wrote reviews for the Beiblätter Annalen der Physik, writing 21 reviews in 1905. In his ...
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Hermann Minkowski, mathematician (Professor at the ETH) Known for: Minkowski Space (Relativity) Jürgen Moser, mathematician (Professor at the ETH) John von Neumann, mathematician, computer scientist (student of the ETH) Hermann Amandus Schwarz, mathematician (Professor at the ETH) Eduard Imhof, cartographer (Student of the ETH, Professor at ...