Minkowski Determinant Theorem

Minkowski, Mińkowski or Minkovski (Slavic feminine: Minkowska, Mińkowska or Minkovskaya; plural: Minkowscy, Mińkowscy; , ) is a surname of Polish origin. It may refer to: * Minkowski or Mińkowski, a coat of arms of Polish nobility *

Alyona Minkovski Alyona Leonidovna Minkovski (; born 30 January 1986) is a Russian American journalist, television host and commentator. In 2011, she was named on the ''Forbes'' 30 under 30 media list. Minkovski is currently a producer of ''American Metamorp ...

(born 1986), Russian-American correspondent and presenter *

Eugène Minkowski Eugène Minkowski (; born Eugeniusz Minkowski; 17 April 1885 – 17 November 1972) was a French psychiatrist of Jewish Polish origin, known for his incorporation of phenomenology into psychopathology and for exploring the notion of "lived time". ...

(1885–1972), French psychiatrist *

Hermann Minkowski Hermann Minkowski (22 June 1864 – 12 January 1909) was a mathematician and professor at the University of Königsberg, the University of Zürich, and the University of Göttingen, described variously as German, Polish, Lithuanian-German, o ...

(1864–1909) Russian-born German mathematician and physicist, known for: **

Minkowski addition In geometry, the Minkowski sum of two set (mathematics), sets of position vectors ''A'' and ''B'' in Euclidean space is formed by vector addition, adding each vector in ''A'' to each vector in ''B'': A + B = \ The Minkowski difference (also ''M ...

Minkowski–Bouligand dimension 450px, Estimating the box-counting dimension of the coast of Great Britain In fractal geometry, the Minkowski–Bouligand dimension, also known as Minkowski dimension or box-counting dimension, is a way of determining the fractal dimension of a b ...

Minkowski diagram A spacetime diagram is a graphical illustration of locations in space at various times, especially in the special theory of relativity. Spacetime diagrams can show the geometry underlying phenomena like time dilation and length contraction with ...

Minkowski distance The Minkowski distance or Minkowski metric is a metric in a normed vector space which can be considered as a generalization of both the Euclidean distance and the Manhattan distance. It is named after the Polish mathematician Hermann Minkowski. ...

Minkowski functional In mathematics, in the field of functional analysis, a Minkowski functional (after Hermann Minkowski) or gauge function is a function that recovers a notion of distance on a linear space. If K is a subset of a real or complex vector space X, ...

** Minkowski inequality **

Minkowski space In physics, Minkowski space (or Minkowski spacetime) () is the main mathematical description of spacetime in the absence of gravitation. It combines inertial space and time manifolds into a four-dimensional model. The model helps show how a ...

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Null vector (Minkowski space) In physics, Minkowski space (or Minkowski spacetime) () is the main mathematical description of spacetime in the absence of gravitation. It combines inertial space and time manifolds into a four-dimensional model. The model helps show how a spa ...

Minkowski plane In mathematics, a Minkowski plane (named after Hermann Minkowski) is one of the Benz planes (the others being Möbius plane and Laguerre plane). Classical real Minkowski plane Applying the pseudo-euclidean distance d(P_1,P_2) = (x'_1-x'_2)^2 ...

Minkowski's theorem In mathematics, Minkowski's theorem is the statement that every convex set in \mathbb^n which is symmetric with respect to the origin and which has volume greater than 2^n contains a non-zero integer point (meaning a point in \Z^n that is not th ...

Minkowski's question mark function In mathematics, Minkowski's question-mark function, denoted , is a Function (mathematics), function with unusual fractal properties, defined by Hermann Minkowski in 1904. It maps quadratic irrational numbers to rational numbers on the unit int ...

Abraham–Minkowski controversy The Abraham–Minkowski controversy is a physics debate concerning electromagnetic momentum within dielectric media. Two equations were first suggested by Hermann Minkowski (1908) :* Wikisource translationThe Fundamental Equations for Electromagne ...

Hasse–Minkowski theorem The 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 topological c ...

** Minkowski separation theorem **

Smith–Minkowski–Siegel mass formula In mathematics, the Smith–Minkowski–Siegel mass formula (or Minkowski–Siegel mass formula) is a formula for the sum of the weights of the lattices (quadratic forms) in a genus, weighted by the reciprocals of the orders of their automorphism gr ...

Christopher Minkowski Christopher Zand Minkowski (; born 13 May 1953) is an American academic, who was Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford from 2005 to 2023. Education and early career Minkowski was educated at Gilman School before studying English ...

(born 1953), American Indologist *

Khristian Minkovski Kristian Petkov Minkovski () (born October 24, 1971) is a retired butterfly swimmer from Bulgaria. He was a member of the Bulgarian National Swimming Team (four men and one woman) at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain Barcelona ( ; ...

(born 1971), Bulgarian swimmer *

Marc Minkowski Marc Minkowski (born 4 October 1962) is a French conductor of classical music, especially known for his interpretations of French Baroque works. Minkowski was musical director of Mozartwoche in Salzburg, Austria, from 2013 to 2017 and was gene ...

(born 1962), French conductor *

Oskar Minkowski Oskar Minkowski (; 13 January 1858 – 18 July 1931) was a German physician and physiologist who held a professorship at the University of Breslau and is most famous for his research on diabetes. He was the brother of the mathematician Hermann ...

(1858–1931), German physician *

Peter Minkowski Peter Minkowski (born 10 May 1941) is a Swiss theoretical physicist. He is primarily known for his proposal, with Harald Fritzsch, of SO(10) as the group of a grand unified theory and for his independent proposal, more-or-less simultaneously wit ...

(born 1941), Swiss physicist *

Pinhas Minkowsky Pinhas Minkowsky (; April 5, 1859 – January 18, 1924) was a Russian ''hazzan'' and composer. Biography Phinehas Minkovsky was born in Bila Tserkva in April 1859. His father, Mordecai, a descendant of Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller, was cantor in the c ...

(1859–1924), Russian ''hazzan'' *

Rudolph Minkowski Rudolph Minkowski (born Rudolf Leo Bernhard Minkowski ; ; May 28, 1895 – January 4, 1976) was a German-American astronomer. Biography Minkowski was the son of Marie Johanna Siegel and physiologist Oskar Minkowski. His uncle was Hermann Mi ...

(1895–1976), German-American astronomer {{surname, Minkowski, Minkowsky (Minkowska), Minkovsky (Minkovskaya), etc. Surnames of Jewish origin Polish-language surnames Slavic-language surnames