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File:Anarchimedes.jpg|link=Anarchimedes|1244: [[Anarchimedes]] acquires large quantity of highly concentrated [[geometry solvent]], threatens to dissolve entire digits from [[Pi (nonfiction)|pi]]. | |File:Anarchimedes.jpg|link=Anarchimedes|1244: [[Anarchimedes]] acquires large quantity of highly concentrated [[geometry solvent]], threatens to dissolve entire digits from [[Pi (nonfiction)|pi]]. | ||
||1521 – Ferdinand Magellan reaches the island of Homonhon in the Philippines. | |||
||1926 – History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts. | |||
File:Emilie Chatelet portrait by Latour.jpg|link=Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|1732: Mathematician and physicist [[Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|Émilie du Châtelet]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Emilie Chatelet portrait by Latour.jpg|link=Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|1732: Mathematician and physicist [[Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|Émilie du Châtelet]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:Caroline_Herschel_1829.jpg|link=Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|1750: Astronomer [[Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|Caroline Herschel]] born. She will discover several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, which bears her name. | File:Caroline_Herschel_1829.jpg|link=Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|1750: Astronomer [[Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|Caroline Herschel]] born. She will discover several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, which bears her name. | ||
||1741 – Carlo Amoretti, Italian scientist (d. 1816) | |||
||1750 – Caroline Herschel, German-English astronomer (d. 1848) | |||
File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1751: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1751: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1774 – Matthew Flinders, English navigator and cartographer (d. 1814) | |||
||1789 – Georg Ohm, German physicist and mathematician (d. 1854) | |||
||1821 – Eduard Heine, German mathematician and academic (d. 1881) | |||
||1836 – Andrew Smith Hallidie, English-American engineer and businessman (d. 1900) | |||
File:Nathaniel Bowditch.jpg|link=Nathaniel Bowditch (nonfiction)|1838: American captain and mathematician [[Nathaniel Bowditch (nonfiction)|Nathaniel Bowditch]] dies. He was a founder of modern maritime navigation; his book ''The New American Practical Navigator'', first published in 1802, is still carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel. | File:Nathaniel Bowditch.jpg|link=Nathaniel Bowditch (nonfiction)|1838: American captain and mathematician [[Nathaniel Bowditch (nonfiction)|Nathaniel Bowditch]] dies. He was a founder of modern maritime navigation; his book ''The New American Practical Navigator'', first published in 1802, is still carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel. | ||
File:Alexander Stepanovich Popov.jpg|link=Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|1859: Physicist and academic [[Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|Alexander Stepanovich Popov]] born. He will do pioneering research in high frequency electrical phenomenoa; in Russia and some eastern European, he will be acclaimed as the inventor of radio. | |||
||1841 – Félix Savart, French physicist and psychologist (d. 1791) | |||
||1846 – Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician and academic (d. 1927) | |||
||1851 – Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (d. 1931) | |||
File:Alexander Stepanovich Popov.jpg|link=Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|1859: Physicist and academic [[Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|Alexander Stepanovich Popov]] born. He will do pioneering research in high frequency electrical phenomenoa; in Russia and some eastern European, he will be acclaimed as the inventor of radio. | |||
||1915 – Kunihiko Kodaira, Japanese mathematician and academic (d. 1997) | |||
||1918 – Frederick Reines, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998) | |||
||1925 – August von Wassermann, German bacteriologist and hygienist (b. 1866) | |||
||1929 – Tihomir Novakov, Serbian-American physicist and academic (d. 2015) | |||
||1935 – Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht. | |||
||1936 – Raymond Vahan Damadian, Armenian-American inventor, invented the MRI | |||
||1966 – Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena target vehicle. | |||
File:Palomares H-Bomb Incident.jpg|link=1966 Palomares B-52 crash (nonfiction)|1966: After-effects of [[1966 Palomares B-52 crash (nonfiction)|1966 Palomares B-52 crash]] reveal new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Palomares H-Bomb Incident.jpg|link=1966 Palomares B-52 crash (nonfiction)|1966: After-effects of [[1966 Palomares B-52 crash (nonfiction)|1966 Palomares B-52 crash]] reveal new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus|1967: ''[[Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus]]'' causes widespread debate about the role of private citizens in fighting [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus|1967: ''[[Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus]]'' causes widespread debate about the role of private citizens in fighting [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1988 – Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States. | |||
||1992 – Yves Rocard, French physicist and engineer (b. 1903) | |||
File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2014: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]]. | File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2014: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]]. | ||
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Revision as of 18:00, 23 July 2017
1732: Mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1750: Astronomer Caroline Herschel born. She will discover several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, which bears her name.
1751: Physicist and crime-fighter Laura Bassi uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1838: American captain and mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch dies. He was a founder of modern maritime navigation; his book The New American Practical Navigator, first published in 1802, is still carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel.
1859: Physicist and academic Alexander Stepanovich Popov born. He will do pioneering research in high frequency electrical phenomenoa; in Russia and some eastern European, he will be acclaimed as the inventor of radio.
1966: After-effects of 1966 Palomares B-52 crash reveal new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1967: Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus causes widespread debate about the role of private citizens in fighting crimes against mathematical constants.
2014: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.