Template:Selected anniversaries/March 5: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 38: | Line 38: | ||
||1912 – Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines. | ||1912 – Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines. | ||
|| | ||Laurent-Moïse Schwartz (b. 5 March 1915) was a French mathematician. He pioneered the theory of distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1950 for his work on the theory of distributions. | ||
||1925 – Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1859) | ||1925 – Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1859) | ||
Revision as of 21:14, 28 November 2017
1223 BC: Solar eclipse occurs; the event is recorded in a Syrian clay tablet, in the Ugaritic language.
1499: Polymath Johannes Trithemius uses Gnomon algorithm functions to generate new class of cryptographic numen.
1574: Mathematician William Oughtred born. He will invent the slide rule in 1622.
1616: Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published.
1640: Didacus automaton attends and records lecture by William Oughtred, which it will later use to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1827: Mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace dies. He made important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy.
1836: Inventor Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
1926: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann reverse-engineers Didacus automaton, retrieves complete copy of lecture by William Oughtred.
2008: Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum dies. He is considered one of the fathers of modern artificial intelligence.
2009: Scientist and combat surgeon Asclepius Myrmidon demonstrates new techniques in combat medicine using Gnomon algorithm techniques.
2016: Computer programmer and engineer Ray Tomlinson dies. He implemented the first email system on ARPANET, including the "@" separator which is still in use today.