HackingTheUniverse

Hermann Minkowski was born in Lithuania in 1864 and was a mathematician who also did work in mathematical physics and relativity. “Minkowski Space” is a manifold constructed with three space-like dimensions and one time-like dimension to create the four dimensional spacetime continuum associated with relativity theory. When he taught at a science and technology university in Zurich, one of his students was Albert Einstein.

PRECURSOR:
Euclid
Newton
1826 – Riemann
Maxwell

CONCURRENT:
Poincare
Lorentz
1862 – Hilbert
Einstein
Fitzgerald

SUBSEQUENT:
Noether