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||1841: Friedrich Otto Rudolf Sturm born ... mathematician. Sturm's Theorem is based on finding the complex imaginary roots of an infinite arbitrary-integer series. Pic. | ||1841: Friedrich Otto Rudolf Sturm born ... mathematician. Sturm's Theorem is based on finding the complex imaginary roots of an infinite arbitrary-integer series. Pic. | ||
||1842: Clarence King born ... geologist, mountaineer, and critic ... Diamond Hoax. | ||1842: Clarence King born ... geologist, mountaineer, and critic ... Diamond Hoax. Pic. | ||
||1852: Louis Braille dies ... educator, invented Braille. | ||1852: Louis Braille dies ... educator, invented Braille. | ||
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||1922: Jakob Rosanes dies ... mathematician and chess player. Rosanes made significant contributions in Cremona transformations. Pic. | ||1922: Jakob Rosanes dies ... mathematician and chess player. Rosanes made significant contributions in Cremona transformations. Pic. | ||
||1927: Jesse Leonard Steinfeld born ... physician and academic, 11th Surgeon General of the United States. | ||1927: Jesse Leonard Steinfeld born ... physician and academic, 11th Surgeon General of the United States. Pic. | ||
||1920: Eduard Study dies ... mathematician known for work on invariant theory of ternary forms (1889) and for the study of spherical trigonometry. Pic. | ||1920: Eduard Study dies ... mathematician known for work on invariant theory of ternary forms (1889) and for the study of spherical trigonometry. Pic. | ||
||1930: W. Wallace Cleland born ... biochemist and educator. | ||1930: W. Wallace Cleland born ... biochemist and educator ... research was concerned with enzyme reaction mechanism and enzyme kinetics, especially multiple-substrate enzymes. Pic. | ||
||1931: Harry Clarke dies ... stained-glass artist and book illustrator. Clarke was a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement. Pic. | ||1931: Harry Clarke dies ... stained-glass artist and book illustrator. Clarke was a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement. Pic. | ||
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File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1931: Inventor [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] signs his last patent application. | File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1931: Inventor [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] signs his last patent application. | ||
||1933: Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov born ... engineer and astronaut. | ||1933: Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov born ... engineer and astronaut. Pic. | ||
||1940: Oscar Lanford born ... mathematician working on mathematical physics and dynamical systems theory. Pic. | ||1940: Oscar Lanford born ... mathematician working on mathematical physics and dynamical systems theory. Pic. | ||
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||1998: Otto Schmitt dies ... inventor, engineer, and biophysicist known for his scientific contributions to biophysics and for establishing the field of biomedical engineering. Schmitt also coined the term biomimetics and invented the Schmitt trigger, the cathode follower, the differential amplifier, and the chopper-stabilized amplifier. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Otto+Schmitt+inventor | ||1998: Otto Schmitt dies ... inventor, engineer, and biophysicist known for his scientific contributions to biophysics and for establishing the field of biomedical engineering. Schmitt also coined the term biomimetics and invented the Schmitt trigger, the cathode follower, the differential amplifier, and the chopper-stabilized amplifier. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Otto+Schmitt+inventor | ||
||2000: Don Martin dies ... cartoonist. | ||2000: Don Martin dies ... cartoonist. Pic. | ||
||2004: Thomas Greenway Stockham dies ... scientist who developed one of the first practical digital audio recording systems, and pioneered techniques for digital audio recording and processing as well. Pic. | ||2004: Thomas Greenway Stockham dies ... scientist who developed one of the first practical digital audio recording systems, and pioneered techniques for digital audio recording and processing as well. Pic. | ||
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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.