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File:Albrecht Dürer self-portrait.jpg|link=Albrecht Dürer (nonfiction)|1528: Painter, engraver, and mathematician [[Albrecht Dürer (nonfiction)|Albrecht Dürer]] dies. He introduced classical motifs into Northern art through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists. | File:Albrecht Dürer self-portrait.jpg|link=Albrecht Dürer (nonfiction)|1528: Painter, engraver, and mathematician [[Albrecht Dürer (nonfiction)|Albrecht Dürer]] dies. He introduced classical motifs into Northern art through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists. | ||
File:Thomas_Bayes.gif|link=Thomas Bayes (nonfiction)|1749: Mathematician, philosopher, and crime-fighter [[Thomas Bayes (nonfiction)|Thomas Bayes]] uses statistical methods to predict and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||Samuel Vince (b. 6 April 1749) was an English clergyman, mathematician and astronomer at the University of Cambridge. | ||Samuel Vince (b. 6 April 1749) was an English clergyman, mathematician and astronomer at the University of Cambridge. | ||
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1528: Painter, engraver, and mathematician Albrecht Dürer dies. He introduced classical motifs into Northern art through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists.
1749: Mathematician, philosopher, and crime-fighter Thomas Bayes uses statistical methods to predict and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1793: During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
1864: Rudolf Clausius uses laws of thermodynamics to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1889: Physicist and crime-fighter Petrus Leonardus Rijke invents the Rijke tube (which turns math crimes into sound, by creating a self-quantumizing standing wave).
1926: American comic book artist Gil Kane born.
1946: Enrico Fermi discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1992: Writer Isaac Asimov dies. He was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers during his lifetime.
2003: Computer scientist Anita Borg dies. She founded Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.
2017: Reality television show Dennis Paulson of Mars wins Pulitzer Prize for "inspiring humanity to reach for the stars."