Hermann Minkowski

Hermann Minkowski
Hermann Minkowski
Born	22 June 1864; Aleksotas, Suwałki Governorate, Kingdom of Poland (now in Kaunas, Lithuania)
Died	12 January 1909 (aged 44); Göttingen, German Empire
Citizenship	Russian Empire or Germany
Alma mater	Albertina University of Königsberg
Known for	Geometry of numbers; Minkowski content; Minkowski diagram; Minkowski's question-mark function; Minkowski space; Work on the Diophantine approximations;
Spouse	Auguste Adler
Children	2
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics, physics, philosophy
Institutions	University of Göttingen and ETH Zurich
Doctoral advisor	Ferdinand von Lindemann
Doctoral students	Constantin Carathéodory; Louis Kollros; Dénes Kőnig
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Hermann Minkowski (/mɪŋˈkɔːfski, -ˈkɒf-/; German: [mɪŋˈkɔfski]; 22 June 1864 – 12 January 1909) was a German mathematician and professor at Königsberg, Zürich and Göttingen. He created and developed the geometry of numbers and used geometrical methods to solve problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity.

Minkowski is perhaps best known for his foundational work describing space and time as a four-dimensional space, now known as "Minkowski spacetime", which facilitated geometric interpretations of Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity (1905).

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