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Hermann Minkowski

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Also known as Minkowski, Herman Minkowski

German mathematician and physicist (1864–1909)

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Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909) was a physicist, mathematician, and university teacher who held citizenship in the Kingdom of Prussia. Born in Aleksotas, Kaunas, he died of natural causes in Göttingen. His academic career included work in Bonn and membership in the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony. Minkowski studied at the University of Königsberg, Altstadt Gymnasium, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where his doctoral advisor was Ferdinand von Lindemann. He supervised students including Albert Einstein, Walther Ritz, Konstantinos Carathéodory, Dénes Kőnig, and Louis Kollros.

Minkowski’s fields of work encompassed geometry, number theory, mathematics, and physics. His notable works include *Gesammelte Abhandlungen*, *Raum und Zeit : Vortrag, gehalten auf de 80. Naturforscher-Versammlung zu Köln am 21. September 1908*, *Diophantische Approximationen*, *Geometrie der Zahlen*, and *Briefe an David Hilbert*. He had a sibling named Oskar Minkowski.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1864
Died
1909
Works
14

Top works

  • Gesammelte Abhandlungen
  • Raum und Zeit : Vortrag, gehalten auf de 80. Naturforscher-Versammlung zu Köln am 21. September 1908
  • Diophantische Approximationen
  • Geometrie der Zahlen
  • Briefe an David Hilbert

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
France
Active from
1962-10-04
classicalconductorfrench conductor

Discography

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Listeners
2
Total plays
2

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,989x

  2. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,999x

  3. Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019

    · 2020 · cited 10,255x

  4. Tricine-sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis for the separation of proteins in the range from 1 to 100 kDa

    · 1987 · cited 9,413x

  5. 2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension

    · 2018 · cited 8,303x

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Quotes

  • “The views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strength. They are radical. Henceforth, space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.”
  • “The whole world appears resolved into such world-lines. And I should like to say beforehand that, according to my opinion, it would be possible for the physical laws to find their fullest expression as correlations of these world-lines.”
  • “The word postulate of relativity... appears to me very stale... I should rather like to give this statement the name Postulate of the absolute world (or briefly, world-postulate).”
  • “The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity.”
  • “Oh, that Einstein, always cutting lectures... I really would not believe him capable of it.”
  • “It came as a tremendous surprise, for in his student days Einstein had been a lazy dog... He never bothered about mathematics at all.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Hermann Minkowski (22 June 1864 – 12 January 1909) was a mathematician and professor at the University of Königsberg, ETH Zürich, and the University of Göttingen, described variously as German, Polish, Lithuanian-German, or Russian. He created and developed the geometry of numbers and elements of convex geometry, and used geometrical methods to solve problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity.

Minkowski is perhaps best known for his foundational work describing space and time as a four-dimensional space, now known as "Minkowski spacetime", which facilitated geometric interpretations of Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity (1905).

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