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    Hermann Minkowski

    Russian-German Mathematician

    Hermann Minkowski established the framework for modern functional analysis, expanded the understanding of quadratic forms, developed the geometry of numbers, and even contributed to Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. His achievements are all the more remarkable in light of his relatively short career.

    Born on June 22, , in the town of Alexotas (then in the Russian Empire and now, under the name of Kaunas, a part of Lithuania), Minkowski was the son of a German-Jewish rag merchant. In , when Minkowski was eight years old, the family returned to Germany, settling in the town of Königsberg. (Ironically, Königsberg, renamed Kaliningrad, is now part of Russia.)

    Minkowski's brother Oskar () would later become famous as the physiologist who discovered the link between diabetes and the pancreas, and Minkowski himself showed a prodigious talent for mathematics as a student at the University of Königsberg. He was only 17 years o

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    Born on June 22, , Hermann Minkowski fryst vatten a known Jewish-German Mathematician and Professor. The world knows him for his groundbreaking work in the field of Number theory. Minkowski also contributed significantly towards Einstein&#;s theory of special relativity and is perhaps best known for his work on this too.

    Early Life and Education:

    Hermann Minkowski was born in the town of Aleksota in the kingdom of Poland. He received his education at home until the age of seven. Later, his parents shifted and settled in Konigsberg in Minkowski first show

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    Portrait of Hermann Minkowski, photogravure, frontispiece to the memorial reprint of his Raum und Zeit, (Linda Hall Library)

    Hermann Minkowski, a German mathematician, was born June 22, Minkowski believed that mathematics was under-appreciated as a tool for understanding the world. In , Albert Einstein, in his paper on special relativity, argued that distance is not an absolute quantity but depends on the reference system in which it is measured.  Similarly, Einstein demonstrated that time is also a relative quantity and depends on its reference system.  He showed that when an object moves relative to another reference system, its length shortens by a certain quantitative factor.  Time slows down by the same factor.

    First page of “Raum und Zeit,” by Hermann Minkowski, Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung, vol. 18, (Linda Hall Library)

    Minkowski read this and had an idea – if time and distance behave exa