Mathematician:Hermann Minkowski

Created and developed the field of geometry of numbers.

Nationality
German, of Polish and Jewish descent.

History

 * Born: 22 June 1864, Alexotas, Russian Empire (now Kaunas, Lithuania)
 * Died: 12 Jan 1909, Göttingen, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

 * Brunn-Minkowski Theorem
 * Hasse-Minkowski Theorem (with Helmut Hasse)
 * Minkowski Addition
 * Minkowski-Bouligand Dimension
 * Minkowski Diagram
 * Minkowski Functional
 * Minkowski's Inequality
 * Minkowski's Question Mark Function
 * Minkowski Spacetime
 * Minkowski-Steiner Formula
 * Minkowski Sum
 * Minkowski's Theorem (Geometry of Numbers)
 * Separating Axis Theorem
 * Smith-Minkowski-Siegel Mass Formula

Books and Papers

 * 1896: Geometrie der Zahlen
 * 1907/1915: Das Relativitätsprinzip
 * 1908: Die Grundgleichungen für die elektromagnetischen Vorgänge in bewegten Körpern
 * 1909: Raum und Zeit
 * 1967: Gesammelte Abhandlungen (Complete Discourses)