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Hermann Minkowski was born in the town of Aleksota, the Suwałki Governorate, the Kingdom of Poland, since 1864 part of the Russian Empire, to Lewin Boruch Minkowski, a merchant who subsidized the building of the choral synagogue in Kovno, [10] [11] [12] and Rachel Taubmann, both of Jewish descent. [13]
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Minkowski (crater) Minkowski addition; Minkowski content; Minkowski distance; Minkowski functional; Minkowski problem; Minkowski problem for polytopes; Minkowski sausage; Minkowski space; Minkowski–Bouligand dimension; Minkowski–Hlawka theorem; Minkowski–Steiner formula; Minkowski's bound; Minkowski's question-mark function; Minkowski's ...
Hermann Minkowski showed in 1907 that the theory of special relativity could be elegantly described using a four-dimensional spacetime, which combines the dimension of time with the three dimensions of space. Einstein in 1920 returned to a concept of aether having no state of motion. [7] [8]
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 the geometry of numbers, the subspace theorem was obtained by Wolfgang M. Schmidt in 1972. [6] It states that if n is a positive integer, and L 1,...,L n are linearly independent linear forms in n variables with algebraic coefficients and if ε>0 is any given real number, then the non-zero integer points x in n coordinates with
The Abraham–Minkowski controversy is a physics debate concerning electromagnetic momentum within dielectric media. [1] [2] Two equations were first suggested by Hermann Minkowski (1908) [3] and Max Abraham (1909) [4] [5] for this momentum. They predict different values, from which the name of the controversy derives. [6]
Born accepted. Toeplitz helped Born brush up on his matrix algebra so he could work with the four-dimensional Minkowski space matrices used in the latter's project to reconcile relativity with electrodynamics. Born and Minkowski got along well, and their work made good progress, but Minkowski died suddenly of appendicitis on 12 January 1909 ...