List of things named after Hermann Minkowski

This is a list of things named after Hermann Minkowski (1864 - 1909), German mathematician:

Mathematics

• Brunn–Minkowski theorem
• Hasse–Minkowski theorem
• Hermite–Minkowski theorem
• Minkowski addition
• Minkowski content
• Minkowski distance
• Minkowski functional
• Minkowski inequality
• Minkowski model
• Minkowski plane
• Minkowski problem
• Minkowski problem for polytopes
• Minkowski sausage
• Minkowski island
• Minkowski snowflake
• Minkowski space (number field)
• Minkowski's bound
• Minkowski's first inequality for convex bodies
• Minkowski's question mark function
• Minkowski's second theorem
• Minkowski's theorem in geometry of numbers
• Minkowski–Bouligand dimension
• Minkowski cover
• Minkowski–Hlawka theorem
• Minkowski–Steiner formula
• Smith–Minkowski–Siegel mass formula
• M-matrices

Physics

• Abraham–Minkowski controversy
• Minkowski diagram
• Minkowski space
• Minkowski superspace

Other

• Minkowski (crater)
• The main-belt asteroid 12493 Minkowski
• The character George Minkowski, from Lost.
• The character Renée Minkowski, from sci-fi audiodrama podcast Wolf 359.
• In the science fiction novel The Chronoliths, by Robert Charles Wilson, "Minkowski ice" is used as an explanatory metaphor for time travel that does not require wholesale changes in the timeline.

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