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||James Victor Uspensky (d. January 27, 1947) was a Russian mathematician notable for writing ''Theory of Equations''. | ||James Victor Uspensky (d. January 27, 1947) was a Russian mathematician notable for writing ''Theory of Equations''. | ||
File:Nikolai Luzin stamp.jpg|link=Nikolai Luzin (nonfiction)|1948: Mathematician, theorist, and crime-fighter [[Nikolai Luzin (nonfiction)|Nikolai Luzin]] uses point-set topology to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||1951 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation Ranger. | ||1951 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation Ranger. | ||
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1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno. He will be burned at the stake.
1931: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll born. He will write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1948: Mathematician, theorist, and crime-fighter Nikolai Luzin uses point-set topology to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1972: Mathematician Richard Courant dies. He co-wrote What is Mathematics?.
1972: Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine counteract effects of Extract of Radium.
2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.