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# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:45:53.682Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Hermann Minkowski was born on 22 June 1864 and spent his career at Königsberg, ETH Zürich, and Göttingen, working at the juncture of geometry and number theory. He pioneered the geometry of numbers and convex geometry, deploying geometric tools to crack problems across disciplines. Then came the pivot: he recast space and time as a single four-dimensional continuum, the framework now called Minkowski spacetime. That structure didn't just illustrate Einstein's special relativity — it gave the theory its skeleton, a way to see what the equations meant. He died on 12 January 1909, three years after the insight that fused his name to the architecture of modern physics.