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||1888 – J. R. Williams, Canadian-born cartoonist (d. 1957) | ||1888 – J. R. Williams, Canadian-born cartoonist (d. 1957) | ||
File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Halting Problem.jpg|link=On Halting Problems|1891: [[On Halting Problems|Asclepius Myrmidon discovers unregistered halting problem]], predicts new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
File:Stefan Banach.jpg|link=Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|1892: Mathematician and academic [[Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|Stefan Banach]] born. He will be one of the founders of modern functional analysis. | File:Stefan Banach.jpg|link=Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|1892: Mathematician and academic [[Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|Stefan Banach]] born. He will be one of the founders of modern functional analysis. | ||
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||1961 – Philibert Jacques Melotte, English astronomer (b. 1880) | ||1961 – Philibert Jacques Melotte, English astronomer (b. 1880) | ||
| | File:Clifford Shull 1949.jpg|link=Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|1979: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|Clifford Shull]] uses the neutron scattering technique to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]]. | ||
|| | ||Cornelis Jacobus (Cor) Gorter (b. 30 March 1980) was a Dutch experimental and theoretical physicist. Among other work, he discovered paramagnetic relaxation and was a pioneer in low temperature physics. | ||
||1982 – Space Shuttle program: STS-3 Mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. | ||1982 – Space Shuttle program: STS-3 Mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. | ||
||John Lighton Synge (d. 30 March 1995) was an Irish mathematician and physicist, whose seven decade career included significant periods in Ireland, Canada, and the USA. He was a prolific author and influential mentor, and is credited with the introduction of a new geometrical approach to the theory of relativity. | ||John Lighton Synge (d. 30 March 1995) was an Irish mathematician and physicist, whose seven decade career included significant periods in Ireland, Canada, and the USA. He was a prolific author and influential mentor, and is credited with the introduction of a new geometrical approach to the theory of relativity. | ||
File:Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter.jpg|link=Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (nonfiction)|1996: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (nonfiction)|Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter]] uses his [[Coxeter's loxodromic sequence of tangent circles (nonfiction)|loxodromic sequence of tangent circles]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||2008 – Roland Fraïssé, French mathematical logician (b. 1920) | ||2008 – Roland Fraïssé, French mathematical logician (b. 1920) | ||
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||2010 – Morris R. Jeppson, American lieutenant and physicist (b. 1922) | ||2010 – Morris R. Jeppson, American lieutenant and physicist (b. 1922) | ||
||2017 – SpaceX conducts the world’s first reflight of an orbital class rocket. | ||2017 – SpaceX conducts the world’s first reflight of an orbital class rocket. | ||
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1599: Mathematician Adam Ries dies. He wrote textbooks for practical mathematics, promoting the advantages of Arabic/Indian numerals over Roman numerals.
1811: Chemist and academic Robert Bunsen born. He will investigate emission spectra of heated elements, and discover caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff.
1862: Mathematician, philosopher, and crime-fighter Antoine Augustin Cournot uses the ideas of functions and probability to locate and apprehend math criminals.
1886: Mathematician, philosopher, and logician Stanisław Leśniewski born. He will posit three nested formal systems, to which he will give the Greek-derived names of protothetic, ontology, and mereology.
1891: Asclepius Myrmidon discovers unregistered halting problem, predicts new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1892: Mathematician and academic Stefan Banach born. He will be one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
1979: Physicist and crime-fighter Clifford Shull uses the neutron scattering technique to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.
1996: Mathematician and crime-fighter Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter uses his loxodromic sequence of tangent circles to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.