biography
pronunciation:
[mingkofskee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1864–1909)
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| biography:
| Mathematician, born near Kaunas, C Lithuania. He was professor at Königsberg (1895), Zürich (1896), where he taught Einstein, and Göttingen (1902). He discovered a new branch of number theory, the geometry of numbers, and gave a precise mathematical description of space-time as it appears in Einstein's relativity theory. |
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