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||Isao Imai (b. 1914) was a Japanese theoretical physicist, known for fluid mechanics and mathematical physics. | ||Isao Imai (b. 1914) was a Japanese theoretical physicist, known for fluid mechanics and mathematical physics. | ||
||Friedrich Hasenöhrl (d. 7 October 1915), was an Austrian physicist. Pic. | |||
||1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history. | ||1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history. |
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1719: Mathematician Pierre Raymond de Montmort dies. He wrote Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard, an influential book about probability and games of chance which introduced the combinatorial study of derangements.
1796: Mathematician and philosopher Thomas Reid dies. Reid believed that common sense (in a special philosophical sense of sensus communis) is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry. He disagreed with David Hume, who asserted that we can never know what an external world consists of as our knowledge is limited to the ideas in the mind, and George Berkeley, who asserted that the external world is merely ideas in the mind.
1797: Red Eyes Fighting "is a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I remember them," says Red Eyes.
1885: Physicist and philosopher Niels Bohr born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
2017: The Worcester Lunch Car Company's Research Division demonstrates advanced Flying Diner technology, including a new dinner menu.