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||1887 – Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London. | ||1887 – Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London. | ||
||George Johnston Allman (28 September 1824 – 9 May 1904) was an Irish professor, mathematician, classical scholar, and historian of ancient Greek mathematics. | |||
||1904 – The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h). | ||1904 – The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h). | ||
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1746: Mathematician and engineer Gaspard Monge born. He will invent descriptive geometry, and do pioneering work in differential geometry.
1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new theory of sets derived from Gnomon algorithm functions. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants."
1941: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
2017: Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus causes widespread debate about the role of private citizens in fighting crimes against mathematical constants.