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
Alyona Leonidovna Minkovski (russian: Алёна Леони́довна Минько́вская; born 30 January 1986) is a Russian American journalist, television host and commentator. In 2011, she was named on the Forbes 30 under 30 media li ...
(born 1986), Russian-American correspondent and presenter
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Eugène Minkowski
Eugène (Eugeniusz) Minkowski (; 17 April 1885 – 17 November 1972) was a French psychiatrist of Jewish Polish origin, known for his incorporation of phenomenology into psychopathology and for exploring the notion of "lived time". A student of ...
(1885–1972), French psychiatrist
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Hermann Minkowski
Hermann Minkowski (; ; 22 June 1864 – 12 January 1909) was a German mathematician and professor at Königsberg, Zürich and Göttingen. He created and developed the geometry of numbers and used geometrical methods to solve problems in number t ...
(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 Minkowski ...
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Minkowski–Bouligand dimension
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Minkowski diagram
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Minkowski distance
The Minkowski distance or Minkowski metric is a metric in a normed vector space which can be considered as a generalization of both the Euclidean distance and the Manhattan distance. It is named after the German mathematician Hermann Minkowski.
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Minkowski functional
In mathematics, in the field of functional analysis, a Minkowski functional (after Hermann Minkowski) or gauge function is a function that recovers a notion of distance on a linear space.
If K is a subset of a real or complex vector space X, then ...
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Minkowski inequality
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Minkowski space
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Null vector (Minkowski space)
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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
In mathematics, Minkowski's theorem is the statement that every convex set in \mathbb^n which is symmetric with respect to the origin and which has volume greater than 2^n contains a non-zero integer point (meaning a point in \Z^n that is not t ...
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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
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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 gr ...
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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 at ...
(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
Marc Minkowski (born 4 October 1962) is a French conductor of classical music, especially known for his interpretations of French Baroque works, and is the current general director of Opéra national de Bordeaux. His mother, Mary Anne (Wade), i ...
(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 Mi ...
(1858–1931), German physician
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Peter Minkowski (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 c ...
(1859–1924), Russian ''hazzan''
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Rudolph Minkowski (1895–1976), German-American astronomer
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