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||1667: Jacob Golius dies ... mathematician based at the University of Leiden in Netherlands. He is primarily remembered as an Orientalist. He published Arabic texts in Arabic at Leiden, and did Arabic-to-Latin translations. His best-known work is an Arabic-to-Latin dictionary, Lexicon Arabico-Latinum (1653), which he sourced for the most part from the Sihah dictionary of Al-Jauhari and the Qamous dictionary of Fairuzabadi. Pic. | ||1667: Jacob Golius dies ... mathematician based at the University of Leiden in Netherlands. He is primarily remembered as an Orientalist. He published Arabic texts in Arabic at Leiden, and did Arabic-to-Latin translations. His best-known work is an Arabic-to-Latin dictionary, Lexicon Arabico-Latinum (1653), which he sourced for the most part from the Sihah dictionary of Al-Jauhari and the Qamous dictionary of Fairuzabadi. Pic. | ||
||1694: Gabriel Mouton dies ... mathematician and theologian. No DOB. Pic search | ||1694: Gabriel Mouton dies ... mathematician and theologian. No DOB. Pic search. | ||
||1819: Engineer and artist Narcís Monturiol born. He will invent the first air-independent and combustion-engine-driven submarine. Pic. | ||1819: Engineer and artist Narcís Monturiol born. He will invent the first air-independent and combustion-engine-driven submarine. Pic. | ||
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||1852: Henri Moissan born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1852: Henri Moissan born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1852: Isis Pogson born ... astronomer and meteorologist. Pic search | ||1852: Isis Pogson born ... astronomer and meteorologist. Pic search. | ||
||1858: Donati's comet (discovered by Giovanni Donati, 1826-1873) became the first to be photographed. It was a bright comet that developed a spectacular curved dust tail with two thin gas tails, captured by an English commercial photographer, William Usherwood, using a portrait camera at a low focal ratio. | ||1858: Donati's comet (discovered by Giovanni Donati, 1826-1873) became the first to be photographed. It was a bright comet that developed a spectacular curved dust tail with two thin gas tails, captured by an English commercial photographer, William Usherwood, using a portrait camera at a low focal ratio. | ||
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||1925: Seymour Cray born ... computer scientist, founded the CRAY Computer Company. | ||1925: Seymour Cray born ... computer scientist, founded the CRAY Computer Company. | ||
File:Martin David Kruskal.jpg|link=Martin David Kruskal (nonfiction)|1925: Physicist and mathematician [[Martin David Kruskal (nonfiction)|Martin David Kruskal]] born. | File:Martin David Kruskal.jpg|link=Martin David Kruskal (nonfiction)|1925: Physicist and mathematician [[Martin David Kruskal (nonfiction)|Martin David Kruskal]] born. Kruskal will make fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, including the discovery and theory of solitons. | ||
||1951: CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later. | ||1951: CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later. | ||
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||1977: Géza Fodor dies ... mathematician, working in set theory. He proved Fodor's lemma on stationary sets, one of the most important, and most used results in set theory. Pic. | ||1977: Géza Fodor dies ... mathematician, working in set theory. He proved Fodor's lemma on stationary sets, one of the most important, and most used results in set theory. Pic. | ||
||1976: Margherita Piazzola Beloch dies ... mathematician ... worked in algebraic geometry, algebraic topology and photogrammetry. Pic search | ||1976: Margherita Piazzola Beloch dies ... mathematician ... worked in algebraic geometry, algebraic topology and photogrammetry. Pic search. | ||
||1979: John Herbert Chapman dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic search | ||1979: John Herbert Chapman dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic search. | ||
||1988: Physicist and computer scientist Marcello Conversi dies. Pic, Italian wiki: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcello_Conversi | ||1988: Physicist and computer scientist Marcello Conversi dies. Pic, Italian wiki: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcello_Conversi | ||
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||2004: Jacobus Hendricus ("Jack") van Lint dies ... mathematician and academic. His field of research was initially number theory, but he worked mainly in combinatorics and coding theory. Pic. | ||2004: Jacobus Hendricus ("Jack") van Lint dies ... mathematician and academic. His field of research was initially number theory, but he worked mainly in combinatorics and coding theory. Pic. | ||
||2004: Luigi Amerio dies ... electrical engineer and mathematician. He is known for his work on almost periodic functions, on Laplace transforms in one and several dimensions, and on the theory of elliptic partial differential equations. Pic search | ||2004: Luigi Amerio dies ... electrical engineer and mathematician. He is known for his work on almost periodic functions, on Laplace transforms in one and several dimensions, and on the theory of elliptic partial differential equations. Pic search. | ||
||2008: Anatoly Alexeevitch Karatsuba dies ... mathematician working in the field of analytic number theory, p-adic numbers and Dirichlet series. The Karatsuba algorithm is the earliest known divide and conquer algorithm for multiplication and lives on as a special case of its direct generalization, the Toom–Cook algorithm. Pic. | ||2008: Anatoly Alexeevitch Karatsuba dies ... mathematician working in the field of analytic number theory, p-adic numbers and Dirichlet series. The Karatsuba algorithm is the earliest known divide and conquer algorithm for multiplication and lives on as a special case of its direct generalization, the Toom–Cook algorithm. Pic. | ||
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1494: Doctor, astronomer, and crime-fighter Johannes Engel publishes an almanac which uses Gnomon algorithm functions to predict crimes against astronomical constants with unprecedented accuracy.
1605: Mathematician and astronomer Ismaël Bullialdus born. He will be an active member of the Republic of Letters, and an early defender of the ideas of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo.
1890 (or 1892): Electrical engineer Florence Violet McKenzie born. She will be was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women.
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1925: Physicist and mathematician Martin David Kruskal born. Kruskal will make fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, including the discovery and theory of solitons.
1953: Astronomer and cosmologist Edwin Hubble dies. He discovered the fact that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way.
2016: Blue Green Blossom voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.