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Hermann Minkowski

1864 - 1909

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Hermann Minkowski ( ming-KAWF-skee, -⁠KOF-; German: [mɪŋˈkɔfski]; 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, or Russian. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann Minkowski has received more than 821,531 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Hermann Minkowski is the 62nd most popular mathematician (up from 66th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 11th in 2019) and the most popular Lithuanian Mathematician.

Hermann Minkowski was a German mathematician and physicist. He is most famous for his work on the geometry of numbers and four-dimensional space.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Hermann Minkowski ranks 62 out of 1,004. Before him are Claude Shannon, Gaspard Monge, Al-Battani, Émilie du Châtelet, August Ferdinand Möbius, and Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani. After him are Bhāskara II, Urbain Le Verrier, Simon Stevin, Friedrich Bessel, Abraham de Moivre, and Ludolph van Ceulen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Hermann Minkowski ranks 9. Before him are Richard Strauss, Wilhelm Wien, Maurice Leblanc, Alois Alzheimer, Camille Claudel, and Walther Nernst. After him are Eleftherios Venizelos, Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, Miguel de Unamuno, Alfred Hermann Fried, and Dmitri Ivanovsky. Among people deceased in 1909, Hermann Minkowski ranks 6. Before him are Leopold II of Belgium, Cesare Lombroso, Geronimo, Itō Hirobumi, and Isaac Albéniz. After him are Hermann Ebbinghaus, Francisco Tárrega, Peder Severin Krøyer, Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, and Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Hermann Minkowski ranks 8 out of 328. Before him are Władysław II Jagiełło (1362), Vytautas (1352), Gediminas (1275), Czesław Miłosz (1911), Mindaugas (1203), and Emmanuel Levinas (1906). After him are Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858), Emma Goldman (1869), Algirdas (1296), Pyotr Wrangel (1878), Kęstutis (1297), and César Cui (1835).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Lithuania

Among mathematicians born in Lithuania, Hermann Minkowski ranks 1. After him are Bruno Abakanowicz (1852).

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