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||1916: Silvanus P. Thompson dies ... physicist, engineer, and academic. His most enduring publication is his 1910 text ''Calculus Made Easy'', which teaches the fundamentals of infinitesimal calculus, and is in the public domain (and still in print). Pic.
||1916: Silvanus P. Thompson dies ... physicist, engineer, and academic. His most enduring publication is his 1910 text ''Calculus Made Easy'', which teaches the fundamentals of infinitesimal calculus, and is in the public domain (and still in print). Pic.


||1918: Mathematician, physicist, and academic Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer. He will be a leading academic in his native Ceylon. Pic.
||1918: Mathematician, physicist, and academic Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer born. He will be a leading academic in his native Ceylon. Pic.


||1920: Dave Berg born ... soldier and cartoonist.
||1920: Dave Berg born ... soldier and cartoonist.


||1922: Margherita Hack born ... astrophysicist and author.
||1922: Margherita Hack born ... astrophysicist and author. Pic.


||1930: Donald Byrne born ... chess player.
||1930: Donald Byrne born ... chess player.

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  • 1577: Astronomer and mathematician Paul Guldin born. He will discover the Guldinus theorem, which determines the surface and the volume of a solid of revolution.

    1577: Astronomer and mathematician Paul Guldin born. He will discover the Guldinus theorem, which determines the surface and the volume of a solid of revolution.

  • 1936: Data from Canterbury scrying engine used to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1936: Data from Canterbury scrying engine used to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1937: Mathematician and academic Vladimir Arnold born. He will help develop the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable systems.

    1937: Mathematician and academic Vladimir Arnold born. He will help develop the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable systems.

  • 1938: Alice Beta Paragliding published. Many experts believe that the illustration depicts Beta infiltrating the ENIAC program, although this is widely debated.

    1938: Alice Beta Paragliding published. Many experts believe that the illustration depicts Beta infiltrating the ENIAC program, although this is widely debated.

  • 1945: Physicist James Franck brings the Franck Report to Washington. The report recommends that the United States not use the atomic bomb as a weapon to prompt the surrender of Japan in World War II.

    1945: Physicist James Franck brings the Franck Report to Washington. The report recommends that the United States not use the atomic bomb as a weapon to prompt the surrender of Japan in World War II.

  • 1981: Arnold's cat map is "better than a laser pointer for keeping a cat amused," says mathematician and cat psychologist Vladimir Arnold.

    1981: Arnold's cat map is "better than a laser pointer for keeping a cat amused," says mathematician and cat psychologist Vladimir Arnold.

  • 2019: Signed first edition of Green Tangle 2 purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a prominent mathematician living in New Minneapolis, Canada."

    2019: Signed first edition of Green Tangle 2 purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a prominent mathematician living in New Minneapolis, Canada."

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