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||William Sealy Gosset (13 June 1876 – 16 October 1937) was an English statistician. He published under the pen name Student, and developed the Student's t-distribution. | ||William Sealy Gosset (13 June 1876 – 16 October 1937) was an English statistician. He published under the pen name Student, and developed the Student's t-distribution. | ||
||1964: With the success of the nuclear weapons test named "596", China became the world's fifth nuclear power. | ||1964: With the success of the nuclear weapons test named "596", China became the world's fifth nuclear power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/596_(nuclear_test) | ||
||1968 – United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute. | ||1968 – United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute. | ||
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1584: Famed illustration Leonardo Draws Clock Head "is a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I remember them", says artist, inventor, and math detective Leonardo da Vinci.
1655: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo dies. His Elim (Palms) deals with astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.
1843: Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
2017: Quaternion multiplication table sells for six million dollars.