On 2 April 1883 the Academy granted the Grand Prize in Mathematics jointly to the the young Minkowski at the start of his career and the elderly Smith at the end of his Minkowskis doctoral thesis submitted in 1885 was a continuation of this prize winning work involving his natural definition of the genus of a form

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On 2 April 1883 the Academy granted the Grand Prize in Mathematics jointly to the the young Minkowski at the start of his career and the elderly Smith at the end of his. Minkowski's doctoral thesis, submitted in 1885, was a continuation of this prize winning work involving his natural definition of the genus of a form.