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Hermann Minkowski
German mathematician and physicist (1864–1909)
Minkowski spacetime
mathematical space setting which eases explanation of special relativity
Minkowski
Moon crater
Minkowski addition
commutative associative binary operation on subsets of an Abelian group (such as Euclidean space)
Minkowski–Bouligand dimension
way of determining the dimension of a fractal set
Minkowski functional
function made from a set
Minkowski distance
distance between vectors or points computed as the pth root of the sum of pth powers of coordinate differences
Minkowski's theorem
symmetric convex set
Minkowski's question mark function
fractal-like continuous function that maps quadratic irrationals to rationals, and rationals to dyadic rationals
Brunn–Minkowski theorem
theorem in geometry
Hasse–Minkowski theorem
two quadratic forms over a number field are equivalent iff they are equivalent locally
maximum-margin hyperplane
convex polyhedra
Abraham–Minkowski controversy
in physics: electromagnetic momentum within dielectric media