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||1054 – Hermann of Reichenau, German composer, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1013)
||1054: Hermann of Reichenau dies ... composer, mathematician, and astronomer.


File:Gerolamo Cardano.jpg|link=Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|1501: [[Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|Gerolamo Cardano]] born. He will be one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance.
File:Gerolamo Cardano.jpg|link=Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|1501: [[Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|Gerolamo Cardano]] born. He will be one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance.


||1541 – Paracelsus, German-Swiss physician, botanist, and chemist (b. 1493)
||1541: Paracelsus dies ... physician, botanist, and chemist.


File:Clock Head (da Vinci version).jpg|link=Clock Head|1624: Renaissance-era mechanical soldier [[Clock Head]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Clock Head (da Vinci version).jpg|link=Clock Head|1624: Renaissance-era mechanical soldier [[Clock Head]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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File:Johan de Witt.jpg|link=Johan de Witt (nonfiction)|1625: Mathematician and politician [[Johan de Witt (nonfiction)|Johan de Witt]] born.  He will derive the basic properties of quadratic forms, an important step in the field of linear algebra.
File:Johan de Witt.jpg|link=Johan de Witt (nonfiction)|1625: Mathematician and politician [[Johan de Witt (nonfiction)|Johan de Witt]] born.  He will derive the basic properties of quadratic forms, an important step in the field of linear algebra.


File:Adriaan Metius.jpg|link=Adriaan Metius (nonfiction)|1626: Mathematician and astronomer [[Adriaan Metius (nonfiction)|Adriaan Metius]] demonstrates manufactured precision astronomical instrument which detect and prevents [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1742: Johann Matthias Hase dies ... mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer.


||1742 – Johann Matthias Hase, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1684)
||1801: Mikhail Ostrogradsky born ... mathematician and physicist.


||1801 – Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and physicist (d. 1862)
||1844: Max Noether born ... mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry and the theory of algebraic functions. He has been called "one of the finest mathematicians of the nineteenth century". He was the father of Emmy Noether. Pic.


||Max Noether (24 September 1844) was a German mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry and the theory of algebraic functions. He has been called "one of the finest mathematicians of the nineteenth century". He was the father of Emmy Noether. Pic.
||1852: The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.


||1852 – The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.
||1858: Carl P. Pulfrich born ... physicist, noted for advancements in optics made as a researcher for the Carl Zeiss company in Jena around 1880, and for documenting the Pulfrich effect, a psycho-optical phenomenon that can be used to create a type of 3-D visual effect. Pic.


|File:Siegel der Universitat Leipzig.png|link=Leipzig University (nonfiction)|1858: "[[Leipzig University (nonfiction)|Leipzig University]] should include me in seal," says [[Friedrich Nietzsche (nonfiction)|Friedrich Nietzsche]].
||1869: "Black Friday": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.


||Carl P. Pulfrich (b. September 24, 1858) was a German physicist, noted for advancements in optics made as a researcher for the Carl Zeiss company in Jena around 1880, and for documenting the Pulfrich effect, a psycho-optical phenomenon that can be used to create a type of 3-D visual effect. Pic.
||1870: Georges Claude born ... chemist and engineer, invented Neon lighting.


||1869 – "Black Friday": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
||1884: Hugo Schmeisser born ... weapons designer and engineer (d. 1953)


||1870 – Georges Claude, French chemist and engineer, invented Neon lighting (d. 1960)
||1885: Viggo Brun born ... professor, mathematician and number theorist. In 1915, he introduced a new method, based on Legendre's version of the sieve of Eratosthenes, now known as the Brun sieve, which addresses additive problems such as Goldbach's conjecture and the twin prime conjecture. He used it to prove that there exist infinitely many integers n such that n and n+2 have at most nine prime factors, and that all large even integers are the sum of two numbers with at most nine prime factors. Pic.


||1884 – Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer and engineer (d. 1953)
||1888: Edward Wilfred Harry Travis born ... British cryptographer and intelligence officer, becoming the operational head of Bletchley Park during World War II, and later the head of GCHQ. Pic.
 
||Sir Edward Wilfred Harry Travis (b. 24 September 1888) was a British cryptographer and intelligence officer, becoming the operational head of Bletchley Park during World War II, and later the head of GCHQ. Pic.


||1888: Launch of Gymnote, one of the world's first all-electric submarine and the first functional submarine equipped with torpedoes.
||1888: Launch of Gymnote, one of the world's first all-electric submarine and the first functional submarine equipped with torpedoes.


||1889 – Charles Leroux, American balloonist and skydiver (b. 1856)
||1889: Charles Leroux dies ... balloonist and skydiver.


||William Frederick Friedman (b. September 24, 1891) was a US Army cryptographer who ran the research division of the Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s, and parts of its follow-on services into the 1950s.  
||William Frederick Friedman (b. September 24, 1891) was a US Army cryptographer who ran the research division of the Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s, and parts of its follow-on services into the 1950s.  

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  • 1501: Gerolamo Cardano born. He will be one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance.

    1501: Gerolamo Cardano born. He will be one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance.

  • 1624: Renaissance-era mechanical soldier Clock Head uses Gnomon algorithm functions to fight crimes against mathematical constants.

    1624: Renaissance-era mechanical soldier Clock Head uses Gnomon algorithm functions to fight crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1625: Mathematician and politician Johan de Witt born. He will derive the basic properties of quadratic forms, an important step in the field of linear algebra.

    1625: Mathematician and politician Johan de Witt born. He will derive the basic properties of quadratic forms, an important step in the field of linear algebra.

  • 1934: Writer and peace activist John Brunner born.

    1934: Writer and peace activist John Brunner born.

  • 1937: Alice Beta Paragliding published. Many experts believe that the illustration depicts Beta infiltrating the ENIAC program.

    1937: Alice Beta Paragliding published. Many experts believe that the illustration depicts Beta infiltrating the ENIAC program.

  • 1938: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann dies. He proved that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant.

    1938: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann dies. He proved that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant.

  • 1999: Writer, editor, and actor George Plimpton publishes his account of personally committing math crimes "for the participatory journalistic experience."

    1999: Writer, editor, and actor George Plimpton publishes his account of personally committing math crimes "for the participatory journalistic experience."

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