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Hermann Minkowski (1864 1909) Mathematician. Friend of David Hilbert. Teacher of Einstein in Zurich Showed that Special Relativity had a geometric interpretation in Spacetime. Eidgenssische Polytechnikum (ETH, Zurich). Born in Aleksota

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Hermann Minkowski (1864 –1909)

Mathematician. Friend of David Hilbert. Teacher of Einstein in Zurich Showed that Special Relativity had a geometric interpretation in Spacetime.

Eidgenössische Polytechnikum (ETH, Zurich).

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Born in Aleksota of Lithuanian Jewish parents Kingdom of Poland

  • Part of Russian Empire
  • Now Lithuania

“The views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strength. They are radical. Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.”

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