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a German mathematician who created and developed the geometry of numbers and used geometrical methods to solve problems in mathematical physics and the theory of relativity
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Born
22 June 1864 Aleksotas, Suwałki Governorate, Kingdom of Poland (now in Kaunas, Lithuania )
Died
12 January 1909 (aged 44) Göttingen, German Empire
Known for
Geometry of numbers Minkowski content Minkowski diagram Minkowski's question-mark function Minkowski space Work on the Diophantine approximations
Fields
Mathematics, physics, philosophy
Alma mater
Albertina University of Königsberg
Institutions
University of Göttingen and ETH Zurich
Spouse(s)
Auguste Adler
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Germany
Children
Lily (1898–1983), Ruth (1902–2000)
Citizenship
Russian Empire or Germany
Doctoral advisor
Ferdinand von Lindemann
Doctoral students
Constantin Carathéodory Louis Kollros Dénes Kőnig
era
1800+