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||1561 – Henry Briggs, British mathematician (d. 1630)
||1561 – Henry Briggs, British mathematician (d. 1630)
||1698: Mathematician Colin Maclaurin born. He will make important contributions to geometry and algebra. The Maclaurin series, a special case of the Taylor series, will be named after him. Pic.


File:Charles Camus - Cours de mathématique.jpg|link=Charles Étienne Louis Camus (nonfiction)|1767: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Charles Étienne Louis Camus (nonfiction)|Charles Étienne Louis Camus]] publishes updated edition of ''Cours de mathématiques'' with new section on the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Charles Camus - Cours de mathématique.jpg|link=Charles Étienne Louis Camus (nonfiction)|1767: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Charles Étienne Louis Camus (nonfiction)|Charles Étienne Louis Camus]] publishes updated edition of ''Cours de mathématiques'' with new section on the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].

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  • 1462: Polymath Johannes Trithemius born. He will be remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.

    1462: Polymath Johannes Trithemius born. He will be remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.

  • 1767: Mathematician and crime-fighter Charles Étienne Louis Camus publishes updated edition of Cours de mathématiques with new section on the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1767: Mathematician and crime-fighter Charles Étienne Louis Camus publishes updated edition of Cours de mathématiques with new section on the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1893: Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.

    1893: Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.

  • 1903: Physicist and mathematician Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet dies. He made seminal contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics.

    1903: Physicist and mathematician Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet dies. He made seminal contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics.

  • 1934: Mathematician, philosopher, and crime-fighter Imre Lakatos uses his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1934: Mathematician, philosopher, and crime-fighter Imre Lakatos uses his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1944: Pultizer Prize awarded to Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition).

    1944: Pultizer Prize awarded to Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition).

  • 1976: Physicist and academic Werner Heisenberg dies. He introduced the uncertainty principle -- in quantum mechanics, any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle can be known.

    1976: Physicist and academic Werner Heisenberg dies. He introduced the uncertainty principle -- in quantum mechanics, any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle can be known.

  • 1976: Mathematician Bertram Kostant uses geometric quantization to detect and record the electroquantum afterlife of Werner Heisenberg.

    1976: Mathematician Bertram Kostant uses geometric quantization to detect and record the electroquantum afterlife of Werner Heisenberg.

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