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||1717 – Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier, French botanist and physicist (d. 1799) | |||
||1767 – Alexis Bouvard, French astronomer and academic (d. 1843) | |||
||Augustus De Morgan (b. 27 June 1806) was a British mathematician and logician. He formulated De Morgan's laws and introduced the term mathematical induction, making its idea rigorous. | |||
||1829 – James Smithson, English chemist and mineralogist (b. 1765) | |||
File:Sophie Germain.jpg|link=Sophie Germain (nonfiction)|1831: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Sophie Germain (nonfiction)|Sophie Germain]] dies. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem provided a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after. | File:Sophie Germain.jpg|link=Sophie Germain (nonfiction)|1831: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Sophie Germain (nonfiction)|Sophie Germain]] dies. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem provided a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after. | ||
||1838 – Paul Mauser, German weapon designer, designed the Gewehr 98 (d. 1914) | |||
||1850 – Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician and academic (d. 1919) | |||
||1872 – Heber Doust Curtis, American astronomer (d. 1942) | |||
||1898 – The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia. | |||
||1901 – Merle Tuve, American geophysicist and academic (d. 1982) | |||
||1927 – Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi convenes an eleven-day conference to discuss Japan's strategy in China. The Tanaka Memorial, a forged plan for world domination, is later claimed to be a secret report leaked from this conference. | |||
||1931 – Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate | |||
||1935 – Eugene Augustin Lauste, French-American inventor (b. 1857) | |||
||1937 – Joseph P. Allen, American physicist and astronaut | |||
File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge. | File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge. | ||
||1952 – Max Dehn, German-American mathematician and academic (b. 1878) | |||
||1954 – The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow. | |||
|File:Hello, world in C.svg|link="Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|1974: Publication of new family of [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" programs]] which use [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to warn users about imminent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |File:Hello, world in C.svg|link="Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|1974: Publication of new family of [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" programs]] which use [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to warn users about imminent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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File:G I Taylor.jpg|link=G. I. Taylor (nonfiction)|1975: Mathematician and physicist [[G. I. Taylor (nonfiction)|G. I. Taylor]] dies. He made major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory. | File:G I Taylor.jpg|link=G. I. Taylor (nonfiction)|1975: Mathematician and physicist [[G. I. Taylor (nonfiction)|G. I. Taylor]] dies. He made major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory. | ||
File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)]]. | ||1982 – Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4. | ||
||1994 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan; Seven people are killed, 660 injured. | |||
File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|2010: ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)]]. | |||
||2013 – NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun. | |||
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Revision as of 20:57, 29 October 2017
1831: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Sophie Germain dies. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem provided a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1975: Mathematician and physicist G. I. Taylor dies. He made major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.
2010: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says Niles Cartouchian (1900s).