The international scientific conference dedicated to the memory of
Prof. Dr. Hermann Minkowski

The international scientific conference organised by the Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) and the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

The conference will be held on September 23-25, 2026, A. Mickevičius st. 37, Kaunas.

Prof. Dr. Hermann Minkowski was a mathematician, one of the pioneers of the theory of relativity.

• Prof. Dr. Hermann Minkowski was born on June 22, 1864 in Kaunas. Here he studied at the Kaunas Governorate (now Maironis) gymnasium.
• Since 1872 he studied at the Königsberg gymnasium, after 1880 he studied at the university of this city.
• In 1883 he received the Grand Prize of mathematical sciences (Grand Prix des Sciences Matematiques) from Paris Academy of Sciences.
• In 1885, H. Minkowski defended his PhD thesis at the Königsberg University (supervisor Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann).
• Hermann Minkowski worked as a professor of mathematics at the universities of Bonn (1887–1894), Königsberg (1894–1896), and Zürich (1896–1902). In Zürich, Minkowski taught mathematics to Albert Einstein, the future founder of relativity theory.
• Since 1902 H. Minkowski was a professor at the University of Göttingen, Germany.
• His works have been published in many languages.
• Prof. Dr. H. Minkowski died on January 12, 1909 in Göttingen, Germany.

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