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||1877 – James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (d. 1946) | ||1877 – James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (d. 1946) | ||
||Heini Halberstam (b. 11 September 1926) was a British mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. He is one of the two mathematicians after whom the Elliott–Halberstam conjecture is named. | |||
||1940 – George Stibitz performs the first remote operation of a computer. | ||1940 – George Stibitz performs the first remote operation of a computer. | ||
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1843: Mathematician and explorer Joseph Nicollet dies. He mapped the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s.
1859: Surgeon and gentleman scientist James Braid uses principles of hypnotherapy to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1862: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, born.
2017: Renaissance-era mechanical soldier Clock Head performs stand-up comedy routine for charity, raises five million dollars for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.