Hermann Minkowski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hermann Minkowski

German mathematician and physicist

Date of Birth: 22-Jun-1864

Place of Birth: Aleksotas, Kaunas County, Lithuania

Date of Death: 12-Jan-1909

Profession: physicist, mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: Germany, German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Hermann Minkowski (; German: [m??'k?fski]; 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 theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity. Minkowski is perhaps best known for his work in relativity, in which he showed in 1907 that his former student Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity (1905) could be understood geometrically as a theory of four-dimensional space–time, since known as the "Minkowski spacetime".