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It's likely that times are changing: a century ago, mathematician Hermann Minkowski famously merged space with time, establishing a new foundation for physics; today physicists are rethinking how the two should fit together.(ESSAY)
Magazine article from: Science News; 9/13/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...by the German mathematician Hermann Minkowski, established a new arena for...possible grounds for divorce. Minkowski's lecture featured one of the...preserve an independent reality," Minkowski declared in Cologne on September...
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You can put a face to 'Lost' voice of Minkowski: It's Fisher Stevens
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/13/2007; 328 words
; The mysterious Minkowski, whose voice was heard on the other side of the satellite...name of the character has been tied to German mathematician Hermann Minkowski, whose Minkowski space -- a four-dimensional system including the three...
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Name Games
Magazine article from: Natural History; 11/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...years ago? As for the "Minkowski" in the object's...German mathematician Hermann Minkowski. renowned for his work...Einstein, who adapted Minkowski's ideas to create...theory of relativity. Hermann's older brother Oskar...
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Research from Roskilde University in the area of science published.
Newspaper article from: Science Letter; 4/21/2009; 700+ words
; ...century mathematical research, one by Karl Hermann Brunn (1862-1939) and another by Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909), have been described as...of mathematical research; and (2) why Minkowski's - and not Brunn's - strand of thought...
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Relatively Simple
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 8/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...necessary for the understanding of Hermann Minkowski's comments on and ideas about...evidence of Einstein's use of Minkowski's tensor calculus, critical...made a special acknowledgment of Minkowski's contribution. In the course...
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Anniversaries inspire timely ruminations.(FROM THE EDITOR)
Magazine article from: Science News; 9/13/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...perspective. A century ago, Hermann Minkowski put Einstein's brand-new...essay in this issue (Page 26), Minkowski's vision of spacetime is no...that's just one idea. The Minkowski anniversary might equally well...
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Here's an odd kind of meat that vegetarians might try
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 1/15/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...as a toy. Q: How was Albert Einstin luckier than Hermann Minkowski, Charles Darwin luckier than A.R. Wallace, and...household names for many of us, whereas the unlucky Minkowski, Wallace and Meyer have been relegated to the dustbin...
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'LOST' & FOUND
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 2/17/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...notion of time dilation) and the concept of space-time, which was advanced by Hermann Minkowski, the mathematician for whom the new and as-yet-unseen Minkowski was named. As we've long suspected, time on the island does not run the same...
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Googling a runner; HORSE PLAY Just for the fun of it.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England); 10/18/2008; 288 words
; Byline: Compiled by Steve Dennis, Peter Scargill, Andrew Pennington and Tony Elves Minkowski 3.50 Cesarewitch Hermann Minkowski, a German mathematician who developed a new view of space and time and laid the mathematical foundation...
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Go-go dancers and naked singularities. (black hole theory)
Magazine article from: R & D; 12/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...was revived and revitalized in the 20th century with the advent of the photon. In 1908 the Gottingen mathematician Hermann Minkowski, building on Einstein's special relativity, combined the dimensionality of space and time into a single unified...
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Minkowski, Hermann
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
MINKOWSKI, HERMANN ( b . Alexotas, Russia [now Lithuanian...Germany, 12 January 1909) mathematics . Minkowski was born of German parents who returned...s paper, the eighteen-year-old Minkowski, in a masterly manuscript of 140 pages...
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Hermann Minkowski
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hermann Minkowski , 1864-1909, Russian mathematician. He was educated in Germany and was professor at the Univ. of Königsberg (1894...
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Dingler, Hugo Albert Emil Hermann
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Dingler, Hugo Albert Emil Hermann ( b . Munich, Germany, 7 July...chemist Emil Erlenmeyer; his father, Hermann Dingler, was a professor of botany...Felix Klein, Edmund Husserl, Hermann Minkowski, Wilhelm Roentgen, and Woldemar...
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Hilbert, David
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...boasted a brilliant student, Hermann Minkowski, two years younger than Hilbert...mathematics. In his obituaries of Minkowski and Hurwitz, Hilbert acknowledged...Zurich and was soon followed by Minkowski. In 1902 Hilbert was reunited...
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Emmy Noether
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...where she encountered such notable mathematicians as Hermann Minkowski, Felix Klein, and David Hilbert. She enrolled at...equations of motion. The eminent German mathematician Hermann Weyl described Noether's contribution in the July...
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