Hermann

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German mathematician human mathematician

Hermann Minkowski was a German mathematician best known for developing the geometric formulation of special relativity using four-dimensional spacetime.

Aliases (1)

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Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	German mathematician → human → mathematician →
academicAdvisor	David Hilbert →
awardReceived	Mathematics Prize of the French Academy of Sciences →
causeOfDeath	appendicitis →
countryOfCitizenship	German Empire →
dateOfBirth	1864-06-22 →
dateOfDeath	1909-01-12 →
doctoralAdvisor	Ferdinand von Lindemann →
educatedAt	Albertus University of Königsberg →
employer	University of Göttingen → University of Königsberg → University of Zurich →
ethnicGroup	Jewish people →
familyName	Minkowski →
fieldOfWork	functional analysis → geometry → mathematical physics → mathematics → number theory →
givenName	Hermann →
hasAcademicDegree	doctorate in mathematics →
influenced	Albert Einstein →
influencedBy	Bernhard Riemann → David Hilbert → Ferdinand von Lindemann →
knownFor	Minkowski diagram → Minkowski functional → Minkowski inequality → Minkowski spacetime → Minkowski sum → geometric formulation of special relativity → geometry of numbers → theory of convex bodies →
languageOfWorkOrName	German →
nativeLanguage	German →
notableStudent	Albert Einstein →
placeOfBirth	Kaunas → Russian Empire →
placeOfDeath	German Empire → Göttingen →
sexOrGender	male →
student	Constantin Carathéodory → Hermann Weyl → Max Born →
workLocation	Göttingen → Königsberg → Zurich →

Referenced by (8)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Hermann Ebbinghaus → Hermann Göring → Hermann Hoth → Hermann Minkowski → Hermann Minkowski → Hermann Weyl → Hermann van Pels → Hermann von Helmholtz →	givenName