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Hermann Minkowski

Hermann Minkowski
Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician and academic (d. 1909)

Hermann Minkowski was a German mathematician and professor at Königsberg, Zürich and Göttingen. He created and developed the geometry of numbers and used geometrical methods to solve problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity.

22 June 1864

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