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||1850 – Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (b. 1778) | ||1850 – Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (b. 1778) | ||
|| | ||Edward Weston (b. May 9, 1850) was an English-born American chemist noted for his achievements in electroplating and his development of the electrochemical cell, named the Weston cell, for the voltage standard. Pic. | ||
||Gilbert Ames Bliss, (b. 9 May 1876), was an American mathematician, known for his work on the calculus of variations. Pic. | ||Gilbert Ames Bliss, (b. 9 May 1876), was an American mathematician, known for his work on the calculus of variations. Pic. | ||
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1746: Mathematician and engineer Gaspard Monge born. He will invent descriptive geometry, and do pioneering work in differential geometry.
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."
1941: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
2017: Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus causes widespread debate about the role of private citizens in fighting crimes against mathematical constants.