Minkowski, Hermann (1864-1909)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3866. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Born in Alexotas, Russian Empire (now Kaunas, Lithuania), became professor at the University of Göttingen, worked on the mathematics of the theory of relativity. Using tensor calculus he cast the work of LORENTZ and EINSTEIN into the form of a four-dimensional non-Euclidean space, now known as Minkowski space. This `space-time continuum' provided the framework on which Einstein developed the gen...

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