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||1929: Mathematician Günter Lumer born. He will work in functional analysis. He is the namesake of the Lumer–Phillips theorem on semigroups of operators on Banach spaces, and was the first to study semi-inner-products. Pic. | ||1929: Mathematician Günter Lumer born. He will work in functional analysis. He is the namesake of the Lumer–Phillips theorem on semigroups of operators on Banach spaces, and was the first to study semi-inner-products. Pic. | ||
||1931: | File:Christopher_Riche_Evans.jpg|link=Christopher Evans (nonfiction)|1931: Psychologist, computer scientist, and author [[Christopher Evans (nonfiction)|Christopher Evans]] born. | ||
||1937: Mathematician Lucjan Böttcher dies ... He will contribute to functional equations, theory of iterations, and the dynamics of holomorphic functions. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Lucjan+Böttcher | ||1937: Mathematician Lucjan Böttcher dies ... He will contribute to functional equations, theory of iterations, and the dynamics of holomorphic functions. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Lucjan+Böttcher | ||
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1777: Physician and engineer John Mudge elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in the same year was awarded the Copley medal for his 'Directions for making the best Composition for the Metals for reflecting Telescopes; together with a Description of the Process for Grinding, Polishing, and giving the great Speculum the true Parabolic Curve'.
1917: Politician John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, born.
1919: Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin view a solar eclipse as a test of Einstein's theory of general relativity.
1931: Psychologist, computer scientist, and author Christopher Evans born.
2016: Chromatographic analysis of Blue Flower reveals "at least eleven, possibly twelve" previously unknown shades of blue.