Hermann Minkowski
German mathematician and physicist (1864–1909)
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Mathematician who bent geometry toward number theory and gave Einstein's relativity a visual language. Minkowski's spacetime model—that unified space and time into a single continuum—stuck around long after his death in 1909.
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Hermann Minkowski 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.
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