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||1913: Alessandro Faedo born ... mathematician and politician, born in Chiampo. He is known for his work in numerical analysis, leading to the Faedo–Galerkin method: he was one of the pupils of Leonida Tonelli and, after his death, he succeeded him on the chair of mathematical analysis at the University of Pisa, becoming dean of the faculty of sciences and then rector and exerting a strong positive influence on the development of the university. | ||1913: Alessandro Faedo born ... mathematician and politician, born in Chiampo. He is known for his work in numerical analysis, leading to the Faedo–Galerkin method: he was one of the pupils of Leonida Tonelli and, after his death, he succeeded him on the chair of mathematical analysis at the University of Pisa, becoming dean of the faculty of sciences and then rector and exerting a strong positive influence on the development of the university. | ||
||1919: Mathematician [[Adolf Hurwitz (nonfiction)|Adolf Hurwitz]] died. He worked on algebra, analysis, geometry and number theory. | ||1919: Mathematician [[Adolf Hurwitz (nonfiction)|Adolf Hurwitz]] died. He worked on algebra, analysis, geometry and number theory. Pic. | ||
||1924: Lucien Marie Le Cam born ... mathematician and statistician. Pic. | ||1924: Lucien Marie Le Cam born ... mathematician and statistician. Pic. | ||
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1724: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão dies.
1831: Physicist Johannes Bosscha Jr. born. He will make important investigations on galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; he will be one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire.
1865: Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in The Saturday Press.
1866: Physicist and crime-fighter Georg Hermann Quincke uses the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter to detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.
1959: Mathematician and academic Aleksandr Khinchin dies. He was one of the founders of modern probability theory.
1962: Physicist and philosopher Niels Bohr born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
2013: NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.
2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates fourth anniversary of NASA launching the MAVEN probe to Mars.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Cowries reveals "at least three hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.