Minkowski

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

• Minkowski or Mińkowski, a coat of arms of Polish nobility
• Alyona Minkovski (born 1986), Russian-American correspondent and presenter
• 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
• Christopher Minkowski (born 1953), American Indologist
• Khristian Minkovski (born 1971), Bulgarian swimmer
• Marc Minkowski (born 1962), French conductor
• Oskar Minkowski (1858–1931), German physician
• Peter Minkowski (born 1941), Swiss physicist
• Pinhas Minkowsky (1859–1924), Russian hazzan
• Rudolph Minkowski (1895–1976), German-American astronomer