Original: Hermann Minkowski (June 22 1864 – January 12 1909) was a German mathematician of Jewish and Polish descent, who created and developed the geometry of numbers and who used geometrical methods to solve difficult problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity.
Simplified: Hermann Minkowski (June 22, 1864 – January 12, 1909 in Göttingen) was a German mathematician.