12 Facts About Hermann Minkowski

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Hermann Minkowski was a German mathematician and professor at Konigsberg, Zurich and Gottingen.

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Hermann Minkowski created and developed the geometry of numbers and used geometrical methods to solve problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity.

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In different sources Hermann Minkowski's nationality is variously given as German, Polish, or Lithuanian-German, or Russian.

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Hermann Minkowski studied in Konigsberg and taught in Bonn, Konigsberg and Zurich, and finally in Gottingen from 1902 until his death in 1909.

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Hermann Minkowski married Auguste Adler in 1897 with whom he had two daughters; the electrical engineer and inventor Reinhold Rudenberg was his son-in-law.

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Hermann Minkowski died suddenly of appendicitis in Gottingen on 12 January 1909.

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Hermann Minkowski was educated in East Prussia at the Albertina University of Konigsberg, where he earned his doctorate in 1885 under the direction of Ferdinand von Lindemann.

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Hermann Minkowski became a friend of another renowned mathematician, David Hilbert.

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Hermann Minkowski's brother, Oskar Minkowski, was a well-known physician and researcher.

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Hermann Minkowski taught at the universities of Bonn, Konigsberg, Zurich, and Gottingen.

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Hermann Minkowski explored the arithmetic of quadratic forms, especially concerning n variables, and his research into that topic led him to consider certain geometric properties in a space of n dimensions.

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Hermann Minkowski is the creator of the Minkowski Sausage and the Minkowski cover of a curve.