Template:Selected anniversaries/March 29: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 37: | Line 37: | ||
||1944: Mathematician Grace Chisholm Young dies. | ||1944: Mathematician Grace Chisholm Young dies. | ||
File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden detail.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|1952: Actor-cryptographer [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|Niles Cartouchian]] premiers new short film about the [[Halting problem (nonfiction)|Halting problem]]. Seen by few at first, it will gain fame over time, influencing a generation of [[Mathematician|mathematical crime-fighters]] . | |||
||1974 – NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury. | ||1974 – NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury. | ||
| Line 42: | Line 44: | ||
||2003 – Carlo Urbani, Italian physician and microbiologist (b. 1956) died SARS | ||2003 – Carlo Urbani, Italian physician and microbiologist (b. 1956) died SARS | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
Revision as of 20:47, 28 March 2018
1772: Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg dies.
1773: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi uses Gnomon algorithm functions to predict and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1780: Adventurer Jørgen Jørgensen born. He will sail to Iceland, declaring the country independent from Denmark and pronouncing himself its ruler, intending to found a new republic following the United States of America and France.
1873: Mathematician and academic Tullio Levi-Civita born. He will gain fame for his work on absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) and its applications to the theory of relativity, and make significant contributions in other areas.
1873: Mystic, faith healer, and alleged time-traveller Grigori Rasputin accused of crimes against mathematical constants.
1896: Mathematician Wilhelm Ackermann born. He will discover the Ackermann function, an important example in the theory of computation.
1952: Actor-cryptographer Niles Cartouchian premiers new short film about the Halting problem. Seen by few at first, it will gain fame over time, influencing a generation of mathematical crime-fighters .