Definition of Minkowski

1. Noun. German mathematician (born in Russia) who suggested the concept of four-dimensional space-time (1864-1909).

Exact synonyms: Hermann Minkowski
Generic synonyms: Mathematician

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Literary usage of Minkowski

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Gauge Fields and Cartan-Ehresmann Connections by Robert Hermann (1975)
"THE FREE DIRAC EQUATION IN Minkowski SPACE We shall now indicate how the “Dirac equation” which is to be found in quantum field theory textbooks (eg, ..."

2. Mathematical Papers Read at the International Mathematical Congress: Held in by Eliakim Hastings Moore, Oskar Bolza, Heinrich Maschke, Henry Seely White, American Mathematical Society (1896)
"VON H. Minkowski IN BONN. IN der Zahlentheorie wird, wie in jedem anderen Gebiete der Analysis, häufig die Erfindung mittelst geometrischer ..."

3. The Atom by Albert Cushing Crehore (1920)
"(197) above, the dr should be replaced by a generalized value depending equally upon the four coordinates in the generalized Minkowski space, which includes ..."

4. The Rudiments of Relativity: Lectures Delivered Under the Auspices of the by John Patrick Dalton (1921)
"THE Minkowski INVARIANT. The next step in the development of the theory was taken by Minkowski in 1908. It also began on the formal ..."

5. Lectures on Chemical Pathology in Its Relation to Practical Medicine by Christian Archibald Herter (1902)
"... of formation of bile colouring- matter—Experiments of Naunyn and Minkowski —Obstruction of bile- ducts in supposedly haematogenous jaundice—Experiments ..."

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