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12/01/1909
Mathematican Hermann Minkowski dies
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He created and developed the geometry of numbers and solved problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity. He was a professor at Königsberg, Zürich and Göttingen. One of his students was Albert Einstein.
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Appendicitis
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University of Zurich
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Special relativity
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