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Hermann Minkowski

Also known as Minkowski, Herman Minkowski

German mathematician and physicist (1864–1909)

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Hermann Minkowski was a German mathematician and physicist who lived from 1864 to 1909 and made important contributions to mathematics and physics during a transformative period in scientific history. While the provided context doesn't specify his particular achievements, his work during this era was significant enough to establish him as a notable figure in the development of modern mathematics and physics.

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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

Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Dissinganno1988
Alcyone1990
Le malade imaginaire1990
Les Surprises de l’amour1990
La Caravane du Caire1991
Les Amours De Ragonde1992
San Giovanni Battista1992
Teseo1992
Les Elémens / Les Caractéres de la Danse / Le tombeau de M. de Lully1993
Anacréon / Le berger fidèle1996

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Listeners: 2
Total plays: 2

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5 total works indexed

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 15,393x
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 10,815x
Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 9,767x
Tricine-sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis for the separation of proteins in the range from 1 to 100 kDa
· 1987 · cited 9,404x
2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension
· 2018 · cited 8,156x

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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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Image: Hermann Minkowski Portrait.jpg
Number of children: 2

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Commons category: Hermann Minkowski
date of birth: 1864-06-22
date of death: 1909-01-12
Erdős number: 3
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name in native language: Hermann Minkowski

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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).