Hermann Minkowski
Hermann Minkowski · Science & Medicine
Geometry of numbers; the spacetime formulation of relativity
1864, Aleksotas (Kaunas), Russian Empire (now Lithuania) — 1909, Göttingen, Germany
Germany
Hermann Minkowski is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Geometry of numbers; the spacetime formulation of relativity
Hermann Minkowski was a German mathematician who created the geometry of numbers and gave special relativity its four-dimensional spacetime formulation, the mathematical framework Einstein adopted for general relativity. He was Jewish, born into a Jewish family, and taught Einstein at Zurich before his early death.
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Geometry of numbers; the spacetime formulation of relativity
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
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