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File:Ludolf van Ceulen.jpg|link=Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|1540: Mathematician and fencer [[Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|Ludolph van Ceulen]] born. He will spend a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant π. | File:Ludolf van Ceulen.jpg|link=Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|1540: Mathematician and fencer [[Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|Ludolph van Ceulen]] born. He will spend a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant π. | ||
||Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (b. 28 January 1608) was a Renaissance Italian physiologist, physicist, and mathematician. He contributed to the modern principle of scientific investigation by continuing Galileo's practice of testing hypotheses against observation. | |||
File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1883: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] invents method of converting alternating current (AC) into [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], revealing new techniques for preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1883: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] invents method of converting alternating current (AC) into [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], revealing new techniques for preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:Auguste Piccard.jpg|link=Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|1884: Physicist and explorer [[Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|Auguste Piccard]] born. He will make record-breaking hot air balloon flights, with which he will study Earth's upper atmosphere and cosmic rays, and invent of the first bathyscaphe. | File:Auguste Piccard.jpg|link=Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|1884: Physicist and explorer [[Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|Auguste Piccard]] born. He will make record-breaking hot air balloon flights, with which he will study Earth's upper atmosphere and cosmic rays, and invent of the first bathyscaphe. | ||
File:Scrimshaw binge residue.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|1921: [[Scrimshaw abuse]] correlates with rise in [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Scrimshaw binge residue.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|1921: [[Scrimshaw abuse]] correlates with rise in [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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1540: Mathematician and fencer Ludolph van Ceulen born. He will spend a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant π.
1883: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla invents method of converting alternating current (AC) into Gnomon algorithm functions, revealing new techniques for preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1884: Physicist and explorer Auguste Piccard born. He will make record-breaking hot air balloon flights, with which he will study Earth's upper atmosphere and cosmic rays, and invent of the first bathyscaphe.
1921: Scrimshaw abuse correlates with rise in crimes against mathematical constants.
1911: Physicist Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs dies. He was convicted of supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War.
1950: Mathematician, theorist, and academic Nikolai Luzin dies. He contributed to descriptive set theory and aspects of mathematical analysis with strong connections to point-set topology.
1961: Brainiac Explains lecture series spends ten weeks on New York Times bestseller list.
1962: Ranger 3 space probe misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).
2002: Tokens harvested from Diagramaceous soil used to cure capacitor plague for the first time.