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||1792: James Beaumont Neilson born ... engineer and businessman ... iron smelting. Pic.
||1792: James Beaumont Neilson born ... engineer and businessman ... iron smelting. Pic.
File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1863: [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] reports that adventurer and alleged "Pirate of the Prairies" [[Wallace War-Heels]] "is preparing to rescue Galileo, or so he says. Impossible, I know, irrational, madness itself; yet I have seen him appear from thin air on a flying horse, and I have heard his strange discourse at some length, and though he is more a man than an angel, I believe he must partake of both."


||1837: Paul Morphy born ... chess player.
||1837: Paul Morphy born ... chess player.
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File:Hermann Minkowski.jpg|link=Hermann Minkowski (nonfiction)|1864: Mathematician and academic [[Hermann Minkowski (nonfiction)|Hermann Minkowski]] born. He will show that Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity can be understood geometrically as a theory of four-dimensional space–time, since known as the "Minkowski spacetime".
File:Hermann Minkowski.jpg|link=Hermann Minkowski (nonfiction)|1864: Mathematician and academic [[Hermann Minkowski (nonfiction)|Hermann Minkowski]] born. He will show that Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity can be understood geometrically as a theory of four-dimensional space–time, since known as the "Minkowski spacetime".
File:Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Wallace War-Heels|1865: Adventurer and alleged "Pirate of the Prairie" [[Wallace War-Heels]] tells reporters that he has sworn to rescue [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]], who has been false accused of committing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1874: Howard Staunton dies ... chess player.
||1874: Howard Staunton dies ... chess player.
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||1940: Daniel Quillen born ... mathematician. He is known for being the "prime architect" of higher algebraic K-theory, for which he was awarded the Cole Prize in 1975 and the Fields Medal in 1978. Pic: https://ronsview.org/2011/05/10/daniel-quillen/
||1940: Daniel Quillen born ... mathematician. He is known for being the "prime architect" of higher algebraic K-theory, for which he was awarded the Cole Prize in 1975 and the Fields Medal in 1978. Pic: https://ronsview.org/2011/05/10/daniel-quillen/
File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1943: ''[[Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition)]]'' reveals Nazi efforts to rewrite history by false accusing [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] of committing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1953: Mauro Francaviglia born ... mathematician and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=mauro+francaviglia
||1953: Mauro Francaviglia born ... mathematician and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=mauro+francaviglia

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  • 1633: The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.

    1633: The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.

  • 1633: Rogue mathematician and alleged supervillain taunts Galileo Galilei for recanting, daring Galileo to "tell it like it is, and let them burn you for it."

    1633: Rogue mathematician and alleged supervillain taunts Galileo Galilei for recanting, daring Galileo to "tell it like it is, and let them burn you for it."

  • 1864: Mathematician and academic Hermann Minkowski born. He will show that Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity can be understood geometrically as a theory of four-dimensional space–time, since known as the "Minkowski spacetime".

    1864: Mathematician and academic Hermann Minkowski born. He will show that Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity can be understood geometrically as a theory of four-dimensional space–time, since known as the "Minkowski spacetime".

  • 1910: Engineer, inventor, and pioneering computer scientist Konrad Zuse born. He will invent the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer.

    1910: Engineer, inventor, and pioneering computer scientist Konrad Zuse born. He will invent the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer.

  • 1977: Mathematician Gabriel Sudan dies. He discovered the Sudan function, an important example in the theory of computation, similar to the Ackermann function.

    1977: Mathematician Gabriel Sudan dies. He discovered the Sudan function, an important example in the theory of computation, similar to the Ackermann function.

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