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File:Antoine Augustin Cournot.jpg|link=|1801: Mathematician and philosopher [[Antoine Augustin Cournot (nonfiction)|Antoine Augustin Cournot]] born. He will introduce the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis. | File:Antoine Augustin Cournot.jpg|link=|1801: Mathematician and philosopher [[Antoine Augustin Cournot (nonfiction)|Antoine Augustin Cournot]] born. He will introduce the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis. | ||
||1820 – Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor and urban planner (b. 1754) | |||
||1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives royal assent, abolishing slavery through most of the British Empire. | ||1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives royal assent, abolishing slavery through most of the British Empire. | ||
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||1910 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American mathematician and economist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985) | ||1910 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American mathematician and economist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985) | ||
||1916 | File:C. Wright Mills.jpg|link=C. Wright Mills (nonfiction)|1916: Sociologist and author [[C. Wright Mills (nonfiction)|C. Wright Mills]] born. He will be published widely in popular and intellectual journals, advocating public and political engagement over disinterested observation. | ||
||1916 – Jack Vance, American author (d. 2013) | ||1916 – Jack Vance, American author (d. 2013) | ||
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1801: Mathematician and philosopher Antoine Augustin Cournot born. He will introduce the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis.
- C. Wright Mills.jpg
1916: Sociologist and author C. Wright Mills born. He will be published widely in popular and intellectual journals, advocating public and political engagement over disinterested observation.
1966: New study reveals that the Brainiac Explains lecture series is funded by a Brownian racket.
1967: New form of Brownian ratchet discovered.