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	Transwiki:Special relativity for beginners - Simple English Wikipedia
		Although the special theory of relativity was first proposed by Einstein in 1905, the modern approach to the theory depends upon the concept of a four-dimensional universe, that was first proposed by Hermann Minkowski in 1908, and further developed as a result of the contributions of Emmy Noether.
		Hermann Minkowski realised in 1908 that if things could be rearranged in time, then the universe might be four-dimensional.
		Minkowski's use of the imaginary unit has been superseded by the use of advanced geometry, that uses a tool known as the "metric tensor", but his original equation survives, and the space-time interval is still given by:
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Transwiki:Special_relativity_for_beginners (1788 words)

	Minkowski, Hermann (1864-1909)
		Minkowski was the first to realize that the work of Hendrik Lorentz and Albert Einstein could be best understood if space and time, formerly thought to be separate entities, were treated as part of a four-dimensional spacetime with a non-Euclidean geometry.
		Minkowski described him as a "lazy dog" who "never bothered about mathematics at all." In 1902, Minkowski accepted a chair at the University of Göttingen, where he stayed for the rest of his life.
		His main interest was in pure mathematics, including number theory and geometry, and it was through his understanding of the more abstract side of mathematics and geometry in more than three dimensions that he developed the idea of four-dimensional spacetime.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/M/Minkowski_Hermann.html (275 words)

	Minkowski, mathematiciens, and the mathematical theory of relativity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Minkowski's 1908 Cologne lecture "Raum und Zeit" (Minkowski 1909) may be understood as an effort to extend the disciplinary frontier of mathematics to include the principle of relativity.
		Minkowski openly recognized the role-albeit a heuristic one-of experimental physics in the discovery of the principle of relativity.
		Minkowski was ultimately unable to detach his theory from that of Einstein, because even if he convinced some mathematicians that his work stood alone, the space-time theory came to be understood by most German physicists as a purely formal development of Einstein's theory.
	www.univ-nancy2.fr /DepPhilo/walter/papers/mmmh.xml (12692 words)

	Blackholes from 1783-1920
		Hermann Minkowski was born in 1864 in Alexotas, Russian Empire.
		Minkowski was a pure mathamatician and his work in the area of the space-time continuum provided the framework for much of the work in Einstein’s theory of relativity.
		Minkowski’s theory and formulas would later support the idea that time and space are actually curved and not consisting of a straight line.
	web.bryant.edu /~ehu/h453proj/blackholes1/1800-1920.htm (962 words)

	Hermann Minkowski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Since the [relativity] postulate comes to mean that only the four-dimensional world in space and time is given by phenomena, but that the projection in space and in time may still be undertaken with a certain degree of freedom, I prefer to call it the postulate of the absolute world.
		It seems Minkowski believed the theory of relativity implied that our world and all objects are four-dimensional (4D) since he introduced the unification of space and time into an indivisible four-dimensional entity (which he called "the world") in a rather substantival manner:
		Minkowski, Hermann (1952) "Space and Time" in Lorentz, Hendrik A., Albert Einstein, Hermann Minkowski, and Hermann Weyl, The Principle of Relativity: A Collection of Original Memoirs on the Special and General Theory of Relativity.
	alcor.concordia.ca /~scol/seminars/conference/minkowski_f.html (923 words)

	Minkowski, Hermann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Minkowski was born near Kaunas and studied at Königsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia).
		Minkowski's concept of the geometry of numbers constituted an important addition to number theory, and his research into that topic led him to consider certain geometric properties in a space of n dimensions and so to hit upon his notion of the space-time continuum.
		The principle of relativity, already put forward by Jules Poincaré; and Albert Einstein, led Minkowski to the view that space and time were interlinked.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/M/Minkowski/1.html (160 words)

	Bob Gardner's "Relativity and Black Holes" Special Relativity
		Minkowski, in fact, was one of Albert Einstein's mathematics professors at the Zurich Politechnikum in 1900.
		As a sad footnote, Hermann Minkowski died of appendicitis in 1909 at the age of 45.
		Minkowski is honored today by the fact that his spacetime is often called Minkowski spacetime or the Minkowski vector space.
	www.etsu.edu /physics/plntrm/relat/spactim.htm (940 words)

	Hermann Minkowski - Raum und Zeit, first separate edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In “’Space and Time’, read by Minkowski in Cologne only a few months before his death, he introduced the notion that made possible the expansion of the relativity theory of Einstein from its specific (1905) to its general form (1916).
		Minkowski’s space-time hypothesis was in effect a restatement of Einstein’s basic principle in a form that greatly enhanced its plausibility and also introduced important new developments.
		Minkowski maintained that the separation of time and space is a false conception; that time itself is a dimension, comparable to length, breadth, and height; and that therefore the true conception of reality was constituted by a space-time continuum possessing these four dimensions.
	www.theworldsgreatbooks.com /minkowski.htm (219 words)

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		Minkowski showed that the same idea can explain the various paradoxes of relativity, if we now instead suppose that our perceptoin of space is merely a three-dimensional slice of what is actually a four-dimensional manifold in which space and time are joined.
		Minkowski imagined that the spatial distance measured by two observers in relative motion is a projection of an underlying four-dimensional spacetime distance onto the three-dimensional space that they can sense; and, similarly, that the temporal "distance" between two events is a projection of the four-dimensional spacetime distance onto their own timeline.
		Once Minkowski had shown that spacetime in special relativity was like a four-dimensional sheet of paper, Einstein spent the better part of the next decade flexing his mathematical muscles until he was able to bend that sheet, which in turn allows us to bend the rules of the game.
	www.talisweb.com /justin/paradox.html (443 words)

	Hermann articles on Encyclopedia.com
		Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von HELMHOLTZ, HERMANN LUDWIG FERDINAND VON [Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von], 1821-94, German scientist.
		Hesse, Hermann HESSE, HERMANN [Hesse, Hermann], 1877-1962, German novelist and poet.
		Sudermann, Hermann SUDERMANN, HERMANN [Sudermann, Hermann], 1857-1928, German dramatist and novelist.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Hermann (445 words)

	minkowski
		Minkowski studied in Königsberg, one of the famous places in the history of mathematics, and received his doctorate there.
		Minkowski got a chair at Göttingen, where he remained until the end of his life.
		The picture of Minkowski that you see on your left is from the time when he was still a teenager.
	www.mathsisgoodforyou.com /people/minkowski.htm (136 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1908, Hermann Minkowski suggested that there may be a way around the immense forces acting on the passengers of a ship accelerating so quickly, a way to evade the effects of time dilation, and a means to make faster-than-light travel possible.
		Minkowski proposed that even though time and space are intimately linked, according to Einstein, they are so entwined that in fact time is a fourth dimension.
		Einstein took Minkowski's idea and came up with the concept of curved space: that is, matter and energy cause distortions in the space-time continuum.
	www-scf.usc.edu /~aaronwon/project/ftl.htm (1949 words)

	Hermann Minkowski Biography / Biography of Hermann Minkowski World of Physics Biography
		In spite of a relatively short career, Hermann Minkowski played an important role in the development of modern mathematics.
		Minkowski was born in Alexotas, Russia on June 22, 1864, of German parents.
		The family returned to their native Germany in 1872, to the city of Königsberg, where Minkowski spent the rest of his childhood and also attended university.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-hermann-minkowski-wop (206 words)

	Hilbert
		In 1882, Hermann Minkowski, a fellow student at Konigsberg, won the prestigious Grand Prix des Sciences Mathmatiques of the Paris Academy at the age of 17.
		Although Minkowski was serving in the army at the time, Hilbert was delighted to renew the daily walks with Hurwitz.
		Hermann Weyl, a colleague of Hilbert at Gottingen, has classified Hilbert's work into five major areas: invariant theory, algebraic number field theory, foundations of geometry and mathematics, integral equations, and physics.
	abyss.uoregon.edu /~js/glossary/hilbert.html (3014 words)

	Notable Minkowskis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Minkowskis have a tradition of significant achievements in the arts, scholarship, medicine, and physics.
		- Hermann Minkowski studied at the Universities of Berlin and Königsberg.
		He was the son of Oskar Minkowski, a professor for pathology.
	www.minkowski.com /notables.htm (481 words)

	Spacetime Society - Minkowski
		Minkowski on the meaning of the relativity principle:
		It seems Minkowski believed the theory of relativity implied that our world and all objects are four-dimensional (4D) since he introduced the unification of space and time into an inseparable 4D entity (which he called "the World") in a rather substantival manner:
		Hermann Minkowski, "Space and Time" in Hendrik A. Lorentz, Albert Einstein, Hermann Minkowski, and Hermann Weyl, The Principle of Relativity: A Collection of Original Memoirs on the Special and General Theory of Relativity (Dover, New York, 1952) pp.
	www.spacetimesociety.org /minkowski.html (552 words)

	time, space
		While long related through motion (cf movement), the congruity of "time" and "space" reaches its scientific apotheosis in the early twentieth century with the single concept of "space-time" in physics and mathematics.
		Before Albert Einstein and Hermann Minkowski conceived of "space-time," time and space were aligned as separate but interdependent media.
		Minkowski was a crucial influence on Einstein's revision of the theory of relativity and the further definition of his own concept of "space-time" as a single entity rather than two separate entities (Nerlich 1-11).
	humanities.uchicago.edu /faculty/mitchell/glossary2004/timespace.htm (1774 words)

	Hermann Weyl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hermann Weyl (November 9 1885 - December 8 1955) was a German (German: A person of German nationality) mathematician (mathematician: A person skilled in mathematics).
		His doctorate was awarded at Göttingen under the direction of Hilbert (Hilbert: German mathematician (1862-1943)) and Minkowski (Minkowski: German mathematician (born in Russia) who suggested the concept of four-dimensional space-time (1864-1909)).
		Weyl, Hermann, "The Continuum : A Critical Examination of the Foundation of Analysis".
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/hermann_weyl (2452 words)

	6.2 Goettingen's Tragedy as Choice of History
		This can be the evidence of negative Minkowski's reaction on the suggested there decision of a problem of electron, its rescue from disintegration due to the forces of scalar (surface) pressure, balancing electric repulsive forces.
		Not Hermann Minkowski to whom the destiny had not given a possibility even to dispose of his revolutionary ideas and hand notes in the clear to the associates way, but Max Born published his own work on hyperbolic kinematics [3].
		Finally, this work of Born threw a shadow on the deep idea of Minkowski about the fundamental importance of the uniqueness of hyperbolic movement in the world of Minkowski and, in a sense, discredited it, having connected it in the memories of descendants with logically vicious concept of firm body of Born.
	www.ltn.lv /~elefzaze?lang=en&mj=0602 (4411 words)

	The intangible Universe - Relativity,space,time and gravity - part 3 of 4
		One of the first people to embrace Einstein's ideas was his former teacher, Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909).
		Hermann Minkowski, Space and Time in A. Einstein et al.
		The union of space and time of which Minkowski spoke is now generally referred to as space-time.
	physicalworld.org /restless_universe/html/ru_4_23.html (630 words)

	Hermann Minkowski Biography / Biography of Hermann Minkowski World of Mathematics Biography
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		Minkowski also developed the mathematical theory known as the geometry of numbers and laid the mathematical foundation for Albert Einstein's theory of relativity by pioneering the notion of a four-dimensional space-time continuum.
		His brother, Oskar Minkowski, became famous as the physiologist who discovered the link between diabetes and the pancreas.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-hermann-minkowski-wom (244 words)

	THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY -
		Initially, a new representation of Hermann Minkowski's Pseudo-Euclidean Space-Time "World" is defined, within which a new concept, Existence Velocity, is incorporated.
		Subsequently, Hermann Minkowski showed that Pseudo - Euclidean Space - Time could be represented by a four dimensional `World', in which three dimensions were spatial in nature, and the fourth, temporal.
		Minkowski's development subsequently led to the mathematical formulation of the Special Theory using such tools as the Tensor Calculus.
	www.relativitydomains.com /Special/Intro.htm (483 words)

	02bgkemp.html
		Aubrey Kempner was a student of Hermann Minkowski at the Georg-August University in Gottingen, Germany, from 1905 until January 12, 1909 when Minkowski died prematurely.
		The Minkowski vision for the mathematics that could speak the Language of Nature surfaced during the years when Minkowski was
		After the pre-mature death of Minkowski in 1909, Kempner struggled to graduate in 1911.
	www.geocities.com /alouetteone/02bgkemp.html (572 words)

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