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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.
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.
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.

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 ||1980: Egon Sharpe Pearson dies ... statistician.
-File:Arnold's cat map.png|link=Arnold's cat map (nonfiction)|1981: [[Arnold's cat map (nonfiction)|Arnold's cat map]] is "better than a laser pointer for keeping a cat amused," says mathematician and cat psychologist [[Vladimir Arnold (nonfiction)|Vladimir Arnold]].
 ||1985: Hua Luogeng dies ... mathematician famous for his important contributions to number theory and for his role as the leader of mathematics research and education in the People's Republic of China.
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 ||2015: Pierre Dolbeault dies ... mathematician. He is known for Dolbeault cohomology and the Dolbeault theorem. Pic.
-File:Green Tangle 2.jpg|link=Green Tangle 2 (nonfiction)|2019: Signed first edition of ''[[Green Tangle 2 (nonfiction)|Green Tangle 2]]'' purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a prominent [[mathematician]] living in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]."
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