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||1832 – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician and academic (d. 1903) | ||1832 – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician and academic (d. 1903) | ||
||William Kingdon Clifford FRS (b. 4 May 1845) was an English mathematician and philosopher. Building on the work of Hermann Grassmann, he introduced what is now termed geometric algebra, a special case of the Clifford algebra named in his honour. | |||
||1852 – Henri Julien, Canadian illustrator (d. 1908) | ||1852 – Henri Julien, Canadian illustrator (d. 1908) | ||
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1678: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes Historia Culvertica, which will soon be widely plagiarized, influencing a generation of humanists.
1679: Astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow born. he will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.
1680: Vandal Savage uses solar eclipse to commit series of crimes against mathematical constants.
1863: Mathematician John Charles Fields born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.
1916: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy born. He will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.
1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.