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||Frank Morley (b. 1860) was a leading mathematician, known mostly for his teaching and research in the fields of algebra and geometry. | ||Frank Morley (b. 1860) was a leading mathematician, known mostly for his teaching and research in the fields of algebra and geometry. | ||
||Victor Alexandre Puiseux (d. 9 September 1883) was a French mathematician and astronomer. Puiseux series are named after him, as is in part the Bertrand–Diquet–Puiseux theorem. | |||
||1892 – Amalthea, third moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard. | ||1892 – Amalthea, third moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard. | ||
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1737: Physician and physicist Luigi Galvani born. In 1780, he will discover that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitch when struck by an electrical spark.
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."
1947: First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
1975: Viking program: Viking 2 launched. Following a 333-day cruise to Mars, the Viking orbiter will begin returning global images of Mars.
2017: The Custodian tells a funny story about why you can't go in there.