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||1993 – The asteroid 243 Ida became the first found to have a moon when it was visited by NASA's Galileo probe. | ||1993 – The asteroid 243 Ida became the first found to have a moon when it was visited by NASA's Galileo probe. | ||
||George Szekeres (d. 28 August 2005) was a Hungarian–Australian mathematician. He will discover the Szekeres snark, a snark with 50 vertices and 75 edges. Pic. | |||
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1801: Mathematician and philosopher Antoine Augustin Cournot born. He will introduce the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis.
1802: Mathematician and engineer Gaspard Monge publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions, based on his pioneering work in differential geometry, which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
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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.