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File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1678: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] publishes ''Historia Culvertica'', which will soon be widely plagiarized, influencing a generation of humanists.
File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1678: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] publishes ''Historia Culvertica'', which will soon be widely plagiarized, influencing a generation of humanists.
File:Peder Horrebow.jpg|link=Peder Horrebow (nonfiction)|1679: Astronomer and mathematician [[Peder Horrebow (nonfiction)|Peder Horrebow]] born. he will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.
 
File:Vandal Savage solar eclipse.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1680: [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage]] uses solar eclipse to commit series of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Peder Horrebow.jpg|link=Peder Horrebow (nonfiction)|1679: Astronomer and mathematician [[Peder Horrebow (nonfiction)|Peder Horrebow]] born. Horrebow will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.
 
File:John Charles Fields.jpg|link=John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|1863: Mathematician [[John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|John Charles Fields]] born.  He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.
File:John Charles Fields.jpg|link=John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|1863: Mathematician [[John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|John Charles Fields]] born.  He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.
File:Reddy Kilowatt US patent picture 1933.jpg|link=Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|1933: [[Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|Ready Kilowatt]] performs in off-Broadway adaption of ''[[Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem]]''.
 
File:Ernst Kummer.jpg|link=Ernst Kummer (nonfiction)|1893: Mathematician [[Ernst Kummer (nonfiction)|Ernst Kummer]] dies. Kummer contributed to abstract algebra; in ring theory, he introduced the term ''ideal''.
 
File:Robert F. Christy Los Alamos ID.png|link=Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|1916: Physicist and astrophysicist [[Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|Robert F. Christy]] born.  Christy will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.
 
File:W._T._Tutte.jpg|link=W. T. Tutte (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic [[W. T. Tutte (nonfiction)|W. T. Tutte]] born. During the Second World War, he will make a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.
 
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  • 1678: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes Historia Culvertica, which will soon be widely plagiarized, influencing a generation of humanists.

    1678: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes Historia Culvertica, which will soon be widely plagiarized, influencing a generation of humanists.

  • 1679: Astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow born. Horrebow will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.

    1679: Astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow born. Horrebow will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.

  • 1863: Mathematician John Charles Fields born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.

    1863: Mathematician John Charles Fields born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.

  • 1893: Mathematician Ernst Kummer dies. Kummer contributed to abstract algebra; in ring theory, he introduced the term ideal.

    1893: Mathematician Ernst Kummer dies. Kummer contributed to abstract algebra; in ring theory, he introduced the term ideal.

  • 1916: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy born. Christy will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.

    1916: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy born. Christy will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.

  • 1917: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic W. T. Tutte born. During the Second World War, he will make a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.

    1917: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic W. T. Tutte born. During the Second World War, he will make a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.

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