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
In geometry, the Minkowski sum (also known as dilation) of two sets of position vectors ''A'' and ''B'' in Euclidean space is formed by adding each vector in ''A'' to each vector in ''B'', i.e., the set
: A + B = \.
Analogously, the Minkowsk ...
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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)
:* Wikisource translationThe Fundamental Equation ...
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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 completion o ...
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Minkowski separation theorem
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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 g ...
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Christopher Minkowski
Christopher Zand Minkowski (; born 13 May 1953) is an American academic, who has been Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford since 2005.
Education and early career
Minkowski was educated at Gilman School before studying English ...
(born 1953), American Indologist
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Khristian Minkovski
Khristian Petkov Minkovski ( bg, Христиан Петков Минковски) (born October 24, 1971 in Sofia) is a retired butterfly swimmer from Bulgaria. He was a member of the Bulgarian National Swimming Team (four men and one woman) at th ...
(born 1971), Bulgarian swimmer
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Marc Minkowski (born 1962), French conductor
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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 M ...
(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
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 ...
(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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