Who developed the diagram known as a spacetime diagram,and was a professor at Königsberg, Zürich and Göttingen?
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Minkowski diagram The Minkowski diagram, also known as a spacetime diagram, was developed in 1908 by Hermann Minkowski and provides an illustration of the properties of space and time in the special theory of relativity. It allows a qualitative understanding of the corresponding phenomena like time dilation and length contraction without mathematical equations.
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Hermann Minkowski Hermann Minkowski ( ; ] ; 22 June 1864 – 12 January 1909) was a mathematician and professor at Königsberg, Zürich and Göttingen. He created and developed the geometry of numbers and used geometrical methods to solve problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity.
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Fritz Medicus Fritz Medicus (April 23, 1876-January 13, 1956) was a German-Swiss philosopher. He was awarded his doctorate while studying in Jena, with the publication of his dissertation, "Kant's transcendental aesthetics and non-euclidian geometry". He was the Chair of Philosophy at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, and moved to ETH Zurich in 1911. Medicus wrote in the tradition of German idealism.
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Van Krevelen diagram Van Krevelen diagrams are graphical plots developed by
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De Donder–Weyl theory In mathematical physics, the De Donder–Weyl theory is a generalization of the Hamiltonian formalism in the calculus of variations and classical field theory over spacetime which treats the space and time coordinates on equal footing. In this framework, the Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics is generalized to field theory in the way that a field is represented as a system that varies both in space and in time. This generalization is different from the canonical Hamiltonian formalism in field theory which treats space and time variables differently and describes classical fields as infinite-dimensional systems evolving in time.
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Paul Harzer Paul Harzer (1857–1932) was a mathematician and astronomer best known for his papers arguing with Albert Einstein regarding the Sagnac effect and its relationship to Special Relativity. Harzer was Professor of Astronomy at the University of Kiel and Director of its observatory. His published article on the experiment of Franz Harress drew two reply articles from Einstein.
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Alfred Kleiner Alfred Kleiner (April 24, 1849 – July 3, 1916) was a Swiss physicist and Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Zurich. He was Albert Einstein's doctoral advisor or "Doktorvater." Initially Einstein's advisor was Heinrich F. Weber. However, they had a major falling out, and Einstein chose to switch to Kleiner.
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Mathematics of general relativity The mathematics of general relativity refers to various mathematical structures and techniques that are used in studying and formulating Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. The main tools used in this geometrical theory of gravitation are tensor fields defined on a Lorentzian manifold representing spacetime. This article is a general description of the mathematics of general relativity.
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Steven Kerckhoff Steven Paul Kerckhoff (born 1952) is a professor of mathematics at Stanford University, who works on hyperbolic 3-manifolds and Teichmüller spaces.
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William L. Burke William Lionel Burke (July 1941 – July 1996) was an astronomy, astrophysics, and physics professor at UC Santa Cruz. He is also the author of "Spacetime, Geometry, Cosmology" (ISBN  ), and of "Applied differential geometry" (ISBN  ), a text expounding the virtues of differential forms over vector calculus for theoretical physics.
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Robert Wald Robert M. Wald ( ; born June 29, 1947 in New York City) is a physicist who specializes in general relativity and the thermodynamics of black holes. He is the son of the mathematician and statistician Abraham Wald. Wald's parents died in a plane crash when he was three years old. He is the author of a graduate textbook, "General Relativity". Wald is a professor at the Enrico Fermi Institute and the University of Chicago. Wald has taught undergraduate courses across a range of physics topics, and has been honored as a particularly effective teacher.
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Lorentz space In mathematical analysis, Lorentz spaces, introduced by George Lorentz in the 1950s, are generalisations of the more familiar formula_1 spaces.
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Spacetime topology Spacetime topology is the topological structure of spacetime, a topic studied primarily in general relativity. This physical theory models gravitation as the curvature of a four dimensional Lorentzian manifold (a spacetime) and the concepts of topology thus become important in analysing local as well as global aspects of spacetime. The study of spacetime topology is especially important in physical cosmology.
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Hans Zassenhaus Hans Julius Zassenhaus (28 May 1912 – 21 November 1991) was a German mathematician, known for work in many parts of abstract algebra, and as a pioneer of computer algebra.
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Christian Weise Christian Weise (30 April 1642 – 21 October 1708), also known under the pseudonyms Siegmund Gleichviel, Orontes, Catharinus Civilis and Tarquinius Eatullus, was a German writer, dramatist, poet, pedagogue and librarian of the Baroque era. He produced a large number of dramatic works, noted for their social criticism and idiomatic style. In the 1670s he started a fashion for German "political novels". He has also been credited with the invention of the mathematical Euler diagram, though this is uncertain.
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Paul Funk Paul Georg Funk (14 April 1886, Vienna – 3 June 1969, Vienna) was an Austrian mathematician who introduced the Funk transform and who worked on the calculus of variations. He was one of David Hilbert's students.
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Marcel Grossmann Marcel Grossmann (Hungarian: "Grossmann Marcell" , April 9, 1878 – September 7, 1936) was a mathematician and a friend and classmate of Albert Einstein. Grossmann was a member of an old Swiss family from Zurich. His father managed a textile factory. He became a Professor of Mathematics at the Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich, today the ETH Zurich, specializing in descriptive geometry.
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Georg Joseph Sidler Georg Joseph Sidler (1831–1907) was a Swiss mathematician, professor at the university of Bern.
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Albert Schwarz Albert Solomonovich Schwarz (Russian: А. С. Шварц ; born June 24, 1934 in Kazan, Soviet Union) is a mathematician and a theoretical physicist educated in the Soviet Union and now a professor at the University of California, Davis.
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Eduard Zehnder Eduard J. Zehnder is a Swiss mathematician, considered one of the founders of symplectic topology.
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Wolfhart Zimmermann Zimmermann was born in Freiburg im Breisgau. In the 1950s he was at Göttingen one of the pioneers of the mathematical quantum field theory; along with Kurt Symanzik and Harry Lehmann he developed the LSZ theory. From 1962 to 1974 he was a professor at the New York University. From 1974 to 1996 he was a director at the Max Planck Institute for physics in Munich, where he was later "Director Emeritus".
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Christel Rotthaus Christel Rotthaus is a professor of mathematics at Michigan State University. She is known for her research in commutative algebra.