Mathematician:Vladimir Sergeyevitch Ignatowski

Mathematician

Russian physicist who wrote on special relativity.

The first to try to derive the Lorentz transformation by group theory only using the relativity principle.

Nationality

Georgian

History

• Born: 20 March 1875 in Tbilisi, Georgia
• Died: 13 January 1942 in Leningrad

Publications

• 1911: Über Überlichtgeschwindigkeiten in der Relativitätstheorie

Also known as

In Russian: Владимир Сергеевич Игнатовский

Rendered variously on publications, for example: Waldemar Sergius von Ignatowsky