Hermann Minkowski (nonfiction)

Hermann Minkowski.

Hermann Minkowski (22 June 1864 – 12 January 1909) was a Jewish German mathematician and professor. He created and developed the geometry of numbers and used geometrical methods to solve problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity.

He was a professor at Königsberg, Zürich and Göttingen.

Minkowski is perhaps best known for his work in relativity, in which he showed in 1907 that his former student Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity (1905), could be understood geometrically as a theory of four-dimensional space–time, since known as the "Minkowski spacetime".

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Mathematics

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Constantin Carathéodory (nonfiction) - Doctoral student
• Albert Einstein (nonfiction)
• David Hilbert (nonfiction) - Friend
• Dénes Kőnig (nonfiction) - Doctoral student
• Mathematician (nonfiction)
• Oskar Minkowski (nonfiction) - Brother
• Minkowski space (nonfiction) - a combining of three-dimensional Euclidean space and time into a four-dimensional manifold where the spacetime interval between any two events is independent of the inertial frame of reference in which they are recorded.
• Number theory (nonfiction)
• Reinhold Rudenberg (nonfiction) - Son-in-law
• Ferdinand von Lindemann (nonfiction) - Doctoral advisor

External links:

• Hermann Minkowski @ Wikipedia