What is "minkowski"

Minkowski, Mińkowski or Minkovski (Slavic feminine: Minkowska, Mińkowska or Minkovskaya; plural: Minkowscy, Mińkowscy), (, ) 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
• Khristian Minkovski (born 1971), Bulgarian swimmer
• Marc Minkowski (born 1962), French conductor
• Oskar Minkowski (1858–1931), German physician
• Peter Minkowski (born 1941), Swiss physicist
• Rudolph Minkowski (1895–1976), German-American astronomer

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Minkowski is a crater on the far side of the Moon, in the lower latitudes of the southern hemisphere. The lunar crater lies about one crater diameter to the north-northeast of crater Lemaître, a formation of similar dimension. To the northwest of Minkowski is the flooded crater Baldet, and to the southeast lies Fizeau.

The outer rim of Minkowski is heavily eroded, and forms little more than an irregular circular ridge in the surface. Numerous craters lie across the rim, the most prominent being two pairs along the eastern edge. The interior floor is relatively level, with a dark patch in the northeast quadrant that is characteristic of a lava-flooded surface. There is a small bowl-shaped crater located prominently at the midpoint. Minkowski S lies along the southwestern edge of the floor. A number of tiny craterlets mark the interior surface, particularly in the southwest quadrant.