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Categories: Biography with signature, Number theorists, University of Bonn faculty, 20th-century German mathematicians, University of Göttingen faculty
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Minkowski  Hermann Minkowski  Herman Minkowski
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German mathematician (born in Russia) who suggested the concept of four-dimensional space-time (1864-1909) WordNet 3.0
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German mathematician (born in Russia) who suggested the concept of four-dimensional space-time (1864-1909) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Hermann Minkowski was a German mathematician and professor at Königsberg, Zürich and Göttingen. Wikipedia
IS A
mathematician
homo
ACADEMIC DEGREE
Doctor of Philosophy
ARCHIVES AT
ETH Zurich University Archives
AWARD RECEIVED
Grand prix des sciences mathématiques
CAUSE OF DEATH
appendicitis
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
Germany
Hohenzollern empire
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
Obalky knih.cz
DOCTORAL ADVISOR
Ferdinand von Lindemann
DOCTORAL STUDENT
Dénes Kőnig
Constantin Carathéodory
Louis Kollros
EDUCATED AT
Humboldt University of Berlin
University of Königsberg
Altstadt Gymnasium
EMPLOYER
University of Zurich
FAMILY NAME
Minkowski
FIELD OF WORK
geometry
mathematics
physics
number theory
GIVEN NAME
Hermann
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
German
MANNER OF DEATH
natural causes
MEMBER OF
Göttingen Academy of Sciences
NOTABLE WORK
Minkowski diagram
Minkowski inequality
Minkowski distance
Minkowski space
Minkowski functional
+6 relations
OCCUPATION
mathematician
physicist
professeur des universités
PLACE OF BIRTH
Aleksotas
PLACE OF BURIAL
Friedhof Heerstraße
PLACE OF DEATH
Göttingen
RESIDENCE
Germany
SEX OR GENDER
male
SIBLING
Oskar Minkowski
STUDENT
Einstein
Walther Ritz
STUDENT OF
Helmholtz
Kirchhoff
Kronecker
Woldemar Voigt
Ernst Kummer
+1 relations
WORK LOCATION
Bonn
WRITING LANGUAGE
German
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Minkowski, Hermann Minkowski
Wikipedia
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Hermann Minkowski
Wikidata
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Hermann Minkowski
Wikipedia Redirections
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Herman Minkowski, Hermann minkowski
Wikidata Alias
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Herman Minkowski, Minkowski

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