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||1522: Lodovico Ferrari born ... mathematician and academic. Pic search scanty | ||1522: Lodovico Ferrari born ... mathematician and academic. Pic search scanty. | ||
||1537: Johann Carion dies ... astrologer and chronicler. Pic. | ||1537: Johann Carion dies ... astrologer and chronicler. Pic. | ||
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File:William Stanley.jpg|link=William Stanley (nonfiction)|1829: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist [[William Stanley (nonfiction)|William Stanley]] born. He will design and manufacture precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes. | File:William Stanley.jpg|link=William Stanley (nonfiction)|1829: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist [[William Stanley (nonfiction)|William Stanley]] born. He will design and manufacture precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes. | ||
||1842: Julian Sochocki born ... mathematician and academic. Pic search | ||1842: Julian Sochocki born ... mathematician and academic. Pic search. | ||
||1849: Leopold Bernhard Gegenbauer born ... mathematician remembered best as an algebraist. Gegenbauer polynomials are named after him. Pic. | ||1849: Leopold Bernhard Gegenbauer born ... mathematician remembered best as an algebraist. Gegenbauer polynomials are named after him. Pic. | ||
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||1881: Gustav Herglotz born ... mathematician. He is best known for his works on the theory of relativity and seismology. Pic. | ||1881: Gustav Herglotz born ... mathematician. He is best known for his works on the theory of relativity and seismology. Pic. | ||
File: | File:Joseph Wedderburn.jpg|link=Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|1882: Mathematician [[Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|Joseph Wedderburn]] born. He will make significant contributions to algebra, proving that a finite division algebra is a field, and proving part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras. | ||
||1892: Cuno Hoffmeister born ... astronomer, observer and discoverer of variable stars, comets and minor planets, and founder of Sonneberg Observatory. Pic. | |||
||1893: Cornelius Lanczos born ... mathematician and physicist. Pic. | ||1893: Cornelius Lanczos born ... mathematician and physicist. Pic. | ||
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||1896: Kazimierz Kuratowski born ... mathematician and logician. Pic. | ||1896: Kazimierz Kuratowski born ... mathematician and logician. Pic. | ||
||1897: Gertrude Blanch born . | File:Gertrude Blanch.jpg|link=Gertrude Blanch (nonfiction)|1897: Mathematician [[Gertrude Blanch (nonfiction)|Gertrude Blanch]] born. Blanch will be a pioneer of numerical analysis and computation, leading the Mathematical Tables Project in New York from its beginning, the Numerical Analysis at UCLA computing division, and mathematical research at the Aerospace Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. | ||
File:Fightin' Bert Russell.jpg|link=Bertrand Russell|1900: [[Bertrand Russell|"Fightin'" Bert Russell]] agrees to | File:Fightin' Bert Russell.jpg|link=Bertrand Russell|1900: [[Bertrand Russell|"Fightin'" Bert Russell]] agrees to organize and chair an informal "Queensberry Rules" boxing subcommittee at the World Peace Conference "if so doing will further the best interests of humanity." | ||
||1903: Bartel Leendert van der Waerden born ... mathematician and historian of mathematics. Pic. | ||1903: Bartel Leendert van der Waerden born ... mathematician and historian of mathematics. Pic. | ||
File:Ayn Rand | File:Ayn Rand by Talbot 1943.jpg|link=Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|1905: Writer and philosopher [[Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|Ayn Rand]] born. | ||
||1907: Dmitri Mendeleev dies ... chemist and academic. Pic. | ||1907: Dmitri Mendeleev dies ... chemist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1913: Gustaf de Laval dies ... engineer ... made important contributions to the design of steam turbines and dairy machinery. Pic. | ||1913: Gustaf de Laval dies ... engineer ... made important contributions to the design of steam turbines and dairy machinery. Pic. | ||
||1917: Herman Feshbach born ... physicist. He was an Institute Professor Emeritus of physics at MIT. Feshbach is best known for Feshbach resonance and for writing, with Philip M. Morse, Methods of Theoretical Physics. Pic search | ||1917: Herman Feshbach born ... physicist. He was an Institute Professor Emeritus of physics at MIT. Feshbach is best known for Feshbach resonance and for writing, with Philip M. Morse, Methods of Theoretical Physics. Pic search. | ||
||1922: Gerrit Lekkerkerker born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||1922: Gerrit Lekkerkerker born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
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||1943: A Short Stirling Pathfinder was downed near Rotterdam. German forces examining the wreckage found an apparatus which they called the "Rotterdam Gerät" (Rotterdam Device). They quickly determined it to be a centimeter wavelength generator, although its exact purpose was unclear. This was revealed when a second example was captured, and the crew of the aircraft revealed it to be a mapping system. Wolfgang Martini immediately set up a team to understand the new system and devise countermeasures. This work led to the FuG 350 Naxos device, a radio receiver using a DF loop for an aircraft installation, covered with a teardrop-shaped fairing and tuned to the H2S frequencies, that was used to track the Pathfinders in flight. Pic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FuG_240_Berlin | ||1943: A Short Stirling Pathfinder was downed near Rotterdam. German forces examining the wreckage found an apparatus which they called the "Rotterdam Gerät" (Rotterdam Device). They quickly determined it to be a centimeter wavelength generator, although its exact purpose was unclear. This was revealed when a second example was captured, and the crew of the aircraft revealed it to be a mapping system. Wolfgang Martini immediately set up a team to understand the new system and devise countermeasures. This work led to the FuG 350 Naxos device, a radio receiver using a DF loop for an aircraft installation, covered with a teardrop-shaped fairing and tuned to the H2S frequencies, that was used to track the Pathfinders in flight. Pic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FuG_240_Berlin | ||
||1945:Mühlviertler Hasenjagd (lit. 'Mühlviertel rabbit hunt') was a war crime in which 500 Soviet officers, who had revolted and escaped from the Mühlviertel subcamp of Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp on 2 February 1945, were hunted down. Local civilians, soldiers and local Nazi organizations hunted down the escapees for three weeks, executing most of them. | |||
File:Constantin Carathéodory.jpg|link=Constantin Carathéodory (nonfiction)|1950: Mathematician and author [[Constantin Carathéodory (nonfiction)|Constantin Carathéodory]] dies. He pioneered the axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach. | File:Constantin Carathéodory.jpg|link=Constantin Carathéodory (nonfiction)|1950: Mathematician and author [[Constantin Carathéodory (nonfiction)|Constantin Carathéodory]] dies. He pioneered the axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach. | ||
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||1957: Grigory Landsberg dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||1957: Grigory Landsberg dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1959: Karl Hessenberg dies ... mathematician and engineer. The Hessenberg matrix form is named after him. The Hessenberg matrix form is named after him. Pic search good | ||1959: Karl Hessenberg dies ... mathematician and engineer. The Hessenberg matrix form is named after him. The Hessenberg matrix form is named after him. Pic search good. | ||
||1965: Mathematician and academic George Neville Watson dies. He applied complex analysis to the theory of special functions. In 1918 he proved a significant result known as Watson's lemma, that has many applications in the theory on the asymptotic behaviour of exponential integrals. Pic search | ||1965: Mathematician and academic George Neville Watson dies. He applied complex analysis to the theory of special functions. In 1918 he proved a significant result known as Watson's lemma, that has many applications in the theory on the asymptotic behaviour of exponential integrals. Pic search | ||
File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|1969: New evidence suggests that ''[[The Eel Escapes Hydrolab]]'' is based on actual events. | File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|1969: New evidence suggests that ''[[The Eel Escapes Hydrolab]]'' is based on actual events. | ||
File:Bertrand Russell transparent bg.png|link=Bertrand Russell (nonfiction)|1970: Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic and political activist [[Bertrand Russell (nonfiction)|Bertrand Russell]] dies. | File:Bertrand Russell transparent bg.png|link=Bertrand Russell (nonfiction)|1970: Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, and political activist [[Bertrand Russell (nonfiction)|Bertrand Russell]] dies. | ||
File:Imre Lakatos.jpg|link=Imre Lakatos (nonfiction)|1974: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic [[Imre Lakatos (nonfiction)|Imre Lakatos]] dies. He is known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development. | File:Imre Lakatos.jpg|link=Imre Lakatos (nonfiction)|1974: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic [[Imre Lakatos (nonfiction)|Imre Lakatos]] dies. He is known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development. | ||
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||2008: Joshua Lederberg dies ... molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the United States space program. He was 33 years old when he won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that bacteria can mate and exchange genes (bacterial conjugation). Pic. | ||2008: Joshua Lederberg dies ... molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the United States space program. He was 33 years old when he won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that bacteria can mate and exchange genes (bacterial conjugation). Pic. | ||
File:Bertram Kostant.jpg|link=Bertram Kostant (nonfiction)|2017: Mathematician [[Bertram Kostant (nonfiction)|Bertram Kostant]] dies. He was one of the principal developers of the theory of geometric quantization. | File:Bertram Kostant.jpg|link=Bertram Kostant (nonfiction)|2017: Mathematician [[Bertram Kostant (nonfiction)|Bertram Kostant]] dies. He was one of the principal developers of the theory of geometric quantization. | ||
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1768: Mathematician and mechanician Charles Étienne Louis Camus dies. He was the author of Cours de mathématiques (Paris, 1766), along with a number of essays on mathematical and mechanical subjects.
1786: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Jacques Philippe Marie Binet born. He will make significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra.
1829: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist William Stanley born. He will design and manufacture precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes.
1882: Mathematician Joseph Wedderburn born. He will make significant contributions to algebra, proving that a finite division algebra is a field, and proving part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras.
1897: Mathematician Gertrude Blanch born. Blanch will be a pioneer of numerical analysis and computation, leading the Mathematical Tables Project in New York from its beginning, the Numerical Analysis at UCLA computing division, and mathematical research at the Aerospace Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
1900: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to organize and chair an informal "Queensberry Rules" boxing subcommittee at the World Peace Conference "if so doing will further the best interests of humanity."
1905: Writer and philosopher Ayn Rand born.
1950: Mathematician and author Constantin Carathéodory dies. He pioneered the axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach.
1969: New evidence suggests that The Eel Escapes Hydrolab is based on actual events.
1970: Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, and political activist Bertrand Russell dies.
1974: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Imre Lakatos dies. He is known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development.
2017: Mathematician Bertram Kostant dies. He was one of the principal developers of the theory of geometric quantization.