Minkowski

Minkowski or Mińkowski (Polish feminine: Minkowska, Mińkowska; plural: Minkowscy, Mińkowscy), (Hebrew: מינקובסקי‎, Russian: Минковский) is a surname. It may refer to:

• Minkowski or Mińkowski, a coat of arms of Polish nobility
• Eugène Minkowski (1885–1972), French psychiatrist
• Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909) Russian-born German mathematician and physicist, known for:
  • Minkowski addition
  • Minkowski–Bouligand dimension
  • Minkowski diagram
  • Minkowski distance
  • Minkowski functional
  • Minkowski inequality
  • Minkowski space
    • Null vector (Minkowski space)
  • Minkowski plane
  • Minkowski's theorem
  • Minkowski's question mark function
  • Abraham–Minkowski controversy
  • Hasse–Minkowski theorem
  • Minkowski separation theorem
  • Smith–Minkowski–Siegel mass formula
• Marc Minkowski (born 1962), French conductor
• Oskar Minkowski (1858–1931), German physician
• Peter Minkowski (born 1941), Swiss physicist
• Rudolph Minkowski (1895–1976), German-American astronomer