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  • ...book|last=James|first=Ioan|title=Driven to innovate : a century of Jewish mathematicians and physicists|year=2009|publisher=Peter Lang|location=Witney|isbn=97819061 ...]]'s obituary of Minkowski illustrates the deep friendship between the two mathematicians (translated): ...
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  • |nationality = French ...cessdate=25 December 2015}}</ref> 29 April 1854&nbsp;– 17 July 1912) was a French mathematician, [[theoretical physicist]], engineer, and [[philosophy of sci ...
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  • ...definitions are only the fruit of an unconscious opportunism.“<ref group=C>French original: ''Nous n’avons pas l’intuition directe de la simultanéité, pas pl ...tivity". In 1904<ref group=A name=future /> he appreciated the work of the mathematicians, who saved what he now called the "[[principle of relativity]]" with the he ...
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