Autor: Minkowski, Hermann
Rok: 1864-1909
Oblast p?sobnosti: matematici, fyzici, vysoko?kol?ti u?itele

Biogr./Hist. udaje: N?mecky matematik a fyzik. Specializoval se zejmena na teorii ?isel, matematickou fyziku a teorii relativity. Je po n?m pojmenovan tzv. Minkowskeho prostor. Vysoko?kolsky pedagog. Publikace z oboru.
Zdroj: Autoritni databaze Narodni knihovny ?R

Hermann Minkowski (22 June 1864 ? 12 January 1909) was a German-Jewish mathematician, professor at Konigsberg, Zurich and Gottingen. 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 work in relativity, in which he showed in 1907 that his former student Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity (1905), could be understood geometrically as a theory of four-dimensional space?time, since known as the "Minkowski spacetime".