Mathematician:Hermann Minkowski

Mathematician
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

 * Minkowski Addition
 * Minkowski Diagram
 * Minkowski Functional
 * Minkowski Spacetime
 * Minkowski Sum


 * Minkowski-Bouligand Dimension (with )


 * Minkowski's Inequality
 * Minkowski's Question Mark Function
 * Minkowski's Theorem (Geometry of Numbers)
 * Separating Axis Theorem


 * Brunn-Minkowski Theorem (with )
 * Hasse-Minkowski Theorem (with )
 * Minkowski-Steiner Formula (with )
 * Smith-Minkowski-Siegel Mass Formula (with and )

Publications

 * 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)

Notable Quotes

 * Integral numbers are the fountainhead of all mathematics.
 * -- Quoted by as an epigraph to Chapter $2$ of  ($1980$)