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||1852: Louis Braille dies ... educator, invented Braille. | ||1852: Louis Braille dies ... educator, invented Braille. | ||
||1884: Gregor Mendel dies ... geneticist and botanist. | ||1884: Gregor Mendel dies ... geneticist and botanist. Pic. | ||
||1886: Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant dies ... mechanician and mathematician who contributed to early stress analysis and also developed the unsteady open channel flow shallow water equations, also known as the Saint-Venant equations that are a fundamental set of equations used in modern hydraulic engineering. Pic. | ||1886: Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant dies ... mechanician and mathematician who contributed to early stress analysis and also developed the unsteady open channel flow shallow water equations, also known as the Saint-Venant equations that are a fundamental set of equations used in modern hydraulic engineering. Pic. | ||
||1912: German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift. | ||1912: German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift. Pic. | ||
||1914: Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer born ... physical and theoretical chemist, educator, and university president. | ||1914: Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer born ... physical and theoretical chemist, educator, and university president. He was described as "one of the most influential physical chemists of his era" whose work "spanned almost all of the important fields of physical chemistry: thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, molecular structure, quantum mechanics, spectroscopy, chemical bonding, relativistic chemical effects, properties of concentrated aqueous salt solutions, kinetics, and conformational analysis." Pic. | ||
File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1918: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] dies. He invented [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]], a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry. | File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1918: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] dies. He invented [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]], a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry. | ||
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1561: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
1655: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant e, and make important contributions to the field of probability.
1918: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor dies. He invented set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.
1931: Inventor Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.
2016: Violet Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.