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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]
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, 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 ...
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 ] ).
1908 – Hermann Minkowski publishes his spacetime formalism of special relativity. 1908 – Frederick Thomas Trouton and Alexander Rankine conduct an experiment with electric circuit , proving that the length contraction is not the only relativistic effect and some form of time dilation is present – similarly to the previous experiments by ...
This view of special relativity was first proposed by Albert Einstein's former professor Hermann Minkowski and is known as Minkowski space. The purpose was to create an invariant spacetime for all observers. To uphold causality, Minkowski restricted spacetime to non-Euclidean hyperbolic geometry. [1] [page needed]
Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909) found that the theory of special relativity could be best understood as a four-dimensional space, since known as the Minkowski spacetime. In physics, Minkowski space (or Minkowski spacetime) (/ m ɪ ŋ ˈ k ɔː f s k i,-ˈ k ɒ f-/ [1]) is the main mathematical description of spacetime in the absence of gravitation.