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||Eugenio Beltrami (d. 18 February 1900) was an Italian mathematician notable for his work concerning differential geometry and mathematical physics. His work was noted especially for clarity of exposition. | ||Eugenio Beltrami (d. 18 February 1900) was an Italian mathematician notable for his work concerning differential geometry and mathematical physics. His work was noted especially for clarity of exposition. | ||
||Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III (b. 1919) was an American mathematician, natural philosopher, and historian of science. | |||
File:Clyde W. Tombaugh.jpg|link=Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|1930: While studying photographs taken in January, astronomer [[Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|Clyde Tombaugh]] discovers Pluto. | File:Clyde W. Tombaugh.jpg|link=Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|1930: While studying photographs taken in January, astronomer [[Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|Clyde Tombaugh]] discovers Pluto. |
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901: Physician, astronomer, and mathematician Thābit ibn Qurra dies. He made important discoveries in algebra, geometry, and astronomy; in astronomy, Thabit was one of the first reformers of the Ptolemaic system.
1809: Physicist and academic Antoine César Becquerel uses electricity to power new type of scrying engine.
1851: Mathematician and academic Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi dies. He made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.
1881: Mathematician and crime-fighter Karl Weierstrass publishes new theory of mathematical analysis with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1899: Mathematician and academic Marius Sophus Lie dies. He largely created the theory of continuous symmetry and applied it to the study of geometry and differential equations.
1930: While studying photographs taken in January, astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
1930: Mathematician Emmy Noether publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which transform theoretical physics into practical physics.
1967: American physicist and academic J. Robert Oppenheimer dies. His achievements in physics included the Born–Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wavefunctions, work on the theory of electrons and positrons, the Oppenheimer–Phillips process in nuclear fusion, and the first prediction of quantum tunneling.