Minkowski
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Minkowski is a surname, and may refer to:
- Eugène MinkowskiEugène MinkowskiEugène Minkowski was a French psychiatrist, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia.Minkowski proposed that psychopathology should always be interpreted taking into account the personal experience of time. The main concepts created by Minkowski included the ideas of "vital contact with reality" and...
(1885 - 1972), French psychiatrist - Hermann MinkowskiHermann MinkowskiHermann Minkowski was a German mathematician of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, who created and developed the geometry of numbers and who used geometrical methods to solve difficult problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity.- Life and work :Hermann Minkowski was born...
(1864 - 1909) Russian-born German mathematician and physicist, known for:- Minkowski additionMinkowski additionIn geometry, the Minkowski sum of two sets A and B in Euclidean space is the result of adding every element of A to every element of B, i.e...
- Minkowski–Bouligand dimension
- Minkowski diagramMinkowski diagramThe Minkowski diagram was developed in 1908 by Hermann Minkowski and provides an illustration of the properties of space and time in the special theory of relativity. It allows a quantitative understanding of the corresponding phenomena like time dilation and length contraction without mathematical...
- Minkowski distanceMinkowski distanceThe Minkowski distance is a metric on Euclidean space which can be considered as a generalization of both the Euclidean distance and the Manhattan distance.-Definition:The Minkowski distance of order p between two pointsis defined as:...
- Minkowski functionalMinkowski functionalIn functional analysis, given a linear space X, a Minkowski functional is a device that uses the linear structure to introduce a topology on X.-Example 1:...
- Minkowski inequalityMinkowski inequalityIn mathematical analysis, the Minkowski inequality establishes that the Lp spaces are normed vector spaces. Let S be a measure space, let 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞ and let f and g be elements of Lp...
- Minkowski spaceMinkowski spaceIn physics and mathematics, Minkowski space or Minkowski spacetime is the mathematical setting in which Einstein's theory of special relativity is most conveniently formulated...
- Null vector (Minkowski space)
- Minkowski planeMinkowski planeIn mathematics, the Minkowski plane is a two-dimensional affine space provided with a metric that is invariant under translations.Often one identifies the underlying affine space with the plane R2....
- Minkowski's theoremMinkowski's theoremIn mathematics, Minkowski's theorem is the statement that any convex set in Rn which is symmetric with respect to the origin and with volume greater than 2n d contains a non-zero lattice point...
- Minkowski's question mark functionMinkowski's question mark functionIn mathematics, the Minkowski question mark function, sometimes called the slippery devil's staircase and denoted by ?, is a function possessing various unusual fractal properties, defined by Hermann Minkowski in 1904...
- Abraham–Minkowski controversy
- Hasse–Minkowski theoremHasse–Minkowski theoremThe Hasse–Minkowski theorem is a fundamental result in number theory which states that two quadratic forms over a number field are equivalent if and only if they are equivalent locally at all places, i.e. equivalent over every completion of the field...
- Minkowski separation theoremSeparating axis theoremFor objects lying in a plane , the separating axis theorem states that, given two convex shapes, there exists a line onto which their projections will be separate if and only if they are not intersecting. A line for which the objects have disjoint projections is called a separating axis...
- Smith–Minkowski–Siegel mass formulaSmith–Minkowski–Siegel mass formulaIn mathematics, the Smith–Minkowski–Siegel mass formula is a formula for the sum of the weights of the lattices in a genus, weighted by the reciprocals of the orders of their automorphism groups...
- Minkowski addition
- Marc MinkowskiMarc MinkowskiMarc Minkowski is a French conductor of classical music, especially known for his interpretations of French Baroque works. His mother is American, and his father was Alexandre Minkowski, a Polish-French professor of pediatrics and one of the founders of neonatology...
(born 1962), French conductor - Oskar MinkowskiOskar MinkowskiOskar Minkowski He held a professor at at the University of Breslau and is most famous for his research on diabetes...
(1858 - 1931), German physician - Rudolph MinkowskiRudolph MinkowskiRudolph Minkowski was a German-American astronomer. His father was the physiologist Oskar Minkowski and his uncle was Hermann Minkowski....
(1895 - 1976), German-American astronomer