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||2002 – Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated. | ||2002 – Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated. | ||
||Leigh Van Valen (d. October 16, 2010) was an U.S. evolutionary biologist. | |||
||2012 – The extrasolar planet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered. | ||2012 – The extrasolar planet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered. | ||
Revision as of 19:30, 28 October 2017
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.