Hermann Minkowski quotes

Hermann Minkowski quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Oh, that Einstein, always skipping lectures... I certainly never would have thought he could do it.”
-- Hermann Minkowski

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“The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity... the rigid electron is no working hypothesis, but a working hindrance. Approaching Maxwell's equations with the concept of the rigid electron seems to me the same thing as going to a concert with your ears stopped up with cotton wool. We must admire the courage and the power of the school of the rigid electron which leaps across the widest mathematical hurdles with fabulous hypotheses, with the hope to land safely over there on experimental-physical ground.”
-- Hermann Minkowski

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“Integers are the fountainhead of all mathematics.”
-- Hermann Minkowski

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“Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.”
-- Hermann Minkowski

Source : Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Albert Einstein, Hermann Minkowski, Hermann Weyl, Arnold Sommerfeld (1952). “The Principle of Relativity: A Collection of Original Memoirs on the Special and General Theory of Relativity”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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“Heaven is angered by my arrogance; my proof [of the four-color theorem] is also defective.”
-- Hermann Minkowski

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“The mathematical education of the young physicist [Albert Einstein] was not very solid, which I am in a good position to evaluate since he obtained it from me in Zurich some time ago.”
-- Hermann Minkowski

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