Minkowski, Mińkowski or Minkovski (Slavic feminine: Minkowska, Mińkowska or Minkovskaya; plural: Minkowscy, Mińkowscy; he, מינקובסקי, russian: Минковский) is a surname of Polish origin. It may refer to:
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Minkowski or Mińkowski, a coat of arms of Polish nobility
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Alyona Minkovski (born 1986), Russian-American correspondent and presenter
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Eugène Minkowski (1885–1972), French psychiatrist
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Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909) Russian-born German mathematician and physicist, known for:
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Minkowski addition
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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 s ...
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Minkowski diagram
A spacetime diagram is a graphical illustration of the properties of space and time in the special theory of relativity. Spacetime diagrams allow a qualitative understanding of the corresponding phenomena like time dilation and length contractio ...
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Minkowski distance
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Minkowski functional
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Minkowski inequality
In mathematical analysis, the Minkowski inequality establishes that the L''p'' spaces are normed vector spaces. Let ''S'' be a measure space, let and let ''f'' and ''g'' be elements of L''p''(''S''). Then is in L''p''(''S''), and we have the t ...
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Minkowski space
In mathematical physics, Minkowski space (or Minkowski spacetime) () is a combination of three-dimensional Euclidean space and time into a four-dimensional manifold where the spacetime interval between any two events is independent of the iner ...
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Null vector (Minkowski space)
In mathematical physics, Minkowski space (or Minkowski spacetime) () is a combination of three-dimensional Euclidean space and time into a four-dimensional manifold where the spacetime interval between any two events is independent of the inerti ...
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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) ...
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Minkowski's theorem
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Minkowski's question mark function
In mathematics, the Minkowski question-mark function, denoted , is a function with unusual fractal properties, defined by Hermann Minkowski in 1904. It maps quadratic irrational numbers to rational numbers on the unit interval, via an expressio ...
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Abraham–Minkowski controversy
The Abraham–Minkowski controversy is a physics debate concerning Electromagnetism, electromagnetic momentum within dielectric media. Two equations were first suggested by Hermann Minkowski (1908)
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Hasse–Minkowski theorem
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Minkowski separation theorem
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Smith–Minkowski–Siegel mass formula
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Christopher Minkowski (born 1953), American Indologist
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Khristian Minkovski (born 1971), Bulgarian swimmer
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Marc Minkowski (born 1962), French conductor
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Oskar Minkowski (1858–1931), German physician
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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 with ...
(born 1941), Swiss physicist
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Pinhas Minkowsky (1859–1924), Russian ''hazzan''
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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 Min ...
(1895–1976), German-American astronomer
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