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||1849: American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.
||1849: American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.


||1854: Karl Hermann Struve born ... astronomer. In Russian, his name is sometimes given as German Ottovich Struve (Герман Оттович Струве) or German Ottonovich Struve (Герман Оттонович Струве). Herman Struve was a part of the famous group of astronomers from the Struve family, which also included his grandfather Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, father Otto Wilhelm von Struve, brother Ludwig Struve and nephew Otto Struve. Unlike other astronomers of the Struve family, Herman spent most of his career in Germany. Continuing the family tradition, Struve's research was focused on determining the positions of stellar objects. He was particularly known for his work on satellites of planets of the Solar System and development of the intersatellite method of correcting their orbital position. The mathematical Struve function is named after him. Pic.
||1854: Karl Hermann Struve born ... astronomer. ... Struve's research was focused on determining the positions of stellar objects. He was particularly known for his work on satellites of planets of the Solar System and development of the intersatellite method of correcting their orbital position. The mathematical Struve function is named after him. Pic.


||1863: Stanisław Zaremba born ... mathematician and engineer. His research in partial differential equations, applied mathematics and classical analysis, particularly on harmonic functions, gained him a wide recognition. Pic.
||1863: Stanisław Zaremba born ... mathematician and engineer. His research in partial differential equations, applied mathematics and classical analysis, particularly on harmonic functions, gained him a wide recognition. Pic.
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File:Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1882: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] reprogrammed to detect and expose [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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 dies ... mathematician and theorist ... known for his study of the Fibonacci sequence. The related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers are named after him. Pic.
File:Édouard Lucas.png|link=Édouard Lucas (nonfiction)|1891: [[Édouard Lucas (nonfiction)|Édouard Lucas]] dies. He studied the Fibonacci sequence; the related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers are named after him. Pic.


||1924P Harvey Kurtzman born ... cartoonist.
||1924: Harvey Kurtzman born ... cartoonist.


||1928: Jack Kenneth Hale born ... mathematician working primarily in the field of dynamical systems and functional differential equations. Nopic.
||1928: Jack Kenneth Hale born ... mathematician working primarily in the field of dynamical systems and functional differential equations. Nopic.

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  • 1881: Mathematician and religious leader Orson Pratt dies. As part of his system of Mormon theology, Pratt embraced the philosophical doctrine of hylozoism.

    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.

    1882: Canterbury scrying engine reprogrammed to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1891: Édouard Lucas dies. He studied the Fibonacci sequence; the related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers are named after him. Pic.

    1891: Édouard Lucas dies. He studied the Fibonacci sequence; the related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers are named after him. Pic.

  • 1930: Mathematician Robin Farquharson born. He will write an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as Theory of Voting.

    1930: Mathematician Robin Farquharson born. He will write an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as Theory of Voting.

  • 2006: Mathematician and physicist John Crank dies. He worked on the numerical solution of partial differential equations; his work with Phyllis Nicolson on the heat equation resulted in the Crank–Nicolson method.

    2006: Mathematician and physicist John Crank dies. He worked on the numerical solution of partial differential equations; his work with Phyllis Nicolson on the heat equation resulted in the Crank–Nicolson method.

  • 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.

    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.

  • 2018: Green Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2018: Green Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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