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Orson_Pratt.jpg|link=Orson Pratt (nonfiction)|1881: Mathematician and religious leader [[Orson Pratt (nonfiction)|Orson Pratt]] dies. As part of his system of Mormon theology, Pratt embraced the philosophical doctrine of hylozoism. | Orson_Pratt.jpg|link=Orson Pratt (nonfiction)|1881: Mathematician and religious leader [[Orson Pratt (nonfiction)|Orson Pratt]] dies. As part of his system of Mormon theology, Pratt embraced the philosophical doctrine of hylozoism. | ||
File:Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1882: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] reprogrammed to detect and expose [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||1891 – Édouard Lucas, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1842) | ||1891 – Édouard Lucas, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1842) | ||
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File:Robert F. Christy Los Alamos ID.png|link=Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|2012: Physicist and astrophysicist [[Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|Robert F. Christy]] dies. He is generally credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium could be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells. | File:Robert F. Christy Los Alamos ID.png|link=Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|2012: Physicist and astrophysicist [[Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|Robert F. Christy]] dies. He is generally credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium could be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells. | ||
File:Malady.jpg|link=Malady|2017: Signed first edition of [[Malady]] sells for three and a half million dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
|File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|2002: [[Transdimensional corporation]] spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage. | |File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|2002: [[Transdimensional corporation]] spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage. | ||
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Revision as of 21:25, 9 July 2017
1881: Mathematician and religious leader Orson Pratt dies. As part of his system of Mormon theology, Pratt embraced the philosophical doctrine of hylozoism.
1882: Canterbury scrying engine reprogrammed to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.
2012: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy dies. He is generally credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium could be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.
2017: Signed first edition of Malady sells for three and a half million dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.