THE FUNDAMENTAL EQUATIONS FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC PROCESSES IN MOVING BODIES and SPACE AND TIME

Hermann Minkowski, the author, was born in 1864 and he died at the early age of thirty-five under an operation for appendicitis. He was a Russian, whose genius led to a Chair being made for him at the University of Gottingen. As I write, a portrait of him is before me. It is the picture of a very young-looking man, with energy and imagination stamped on every feature. The Slavs are like the Celts in this respect. They may be deficient in staying power compared with us who are of Saxon desce...