Minkowski inequality
Desigualdad de Minkowski
- Date
- 1896 · confidence medium
- Place
- Bonn, Germany
- Credited to
- Hermann Minkowski
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
An inequality that establishes the triangle inequality for Lp spaces, underpinning their definition as normed vector spaces.
Published in his work 'Geometrie der Zahlen' (1896); not to be confused with Minkowski spacetime (1908), a later work by the same author.
What it led to
- Consolidation of Lp spaces in functional analysis
- Foundations for modern measure theory and probability
Built on
- Cauchy-Schwarz inequality