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||1877 – Francis William Aston, English chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1945) | ||1877 – Francis William Aston, English chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1945) | ||
||Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze (b. August 31, 1880) was an Austrian mathematician, famous for the Tietze extension theorem on functions from topological spaces to the real numbers. He also developed the Tietze transformations for group presentations, and was the first to pose the group isomorphism problem. | |||
||1895 – Engelbert Zaschka, German engineer and designer, invented the Human-powered aircraft (d. 1955) | ||1895 – Engelbert Zaschka, German engineer and designer, invented the Human-powered aircraft (d. 1955) | ||
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1648: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne dies. He is remembered as the "father of acoustics".
1649: Architect Inigo Jones uses Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry to design buildings which are resistant to crimes against mathematical constants.
1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1945: Mathematician and academic Stefan Banach dies. He was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Discovers Time Travel sells for two and a half million dollars."