Noun
German mathematician (born in Russia) who suggested the concept of four-dimensional space-time (1864-1909)
Source: WordNetA general definition of surface area was sought by Henri Lebesgue and Hermann Minkowski at the turn of the twentieth century. Source: Internet
History and development Kaluza–Klein theory main In the early 20th century, physicists and mathematicians including Albert Einstein and Hermann Minkowski pioneered the use of four-dimensional geometry for describing the physical world. Source: Internet
Reid 1996, p. 139. Hilbert considered the mathematician Hermann Minkowski to be his "best and truest friend". Source: Internet
In physics, the "block universe" of Hermann Minkowski and Albert Einstein assumes that time is a fourth dimension (like the three spatial dimensions). Source: Internet
Momentum (Abraham–Minkowski controversy) main In 1908, Hermann Minkowski calculated the momentum p of a refracted ray as follows: citation : where E is energy of the photon, c is the speed of light in vacuum and n is the refractive index of the medium. Source: Internet
This was understood by Hermann Minkowski to be a generalization of rotational invariance from space to space-time. Source: Internet