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||2000 – Vera Atkins, British intelligence officer (b. 1908) | ||2000 – Vera Atkins, British intelligence officer (b. 1908) | ||
||2005: Günter Lumer dies ... was a mathematician known for his work in functional analysis. He is the namesake of the Lumer–Phillips theorem on semigroups of operators on Banach spaces, and was the first to study semi-inner-products. Pic. | |||
||2008 – Gerhard Ringel, Austrian mathematician and academic (b. 1919) | ||2008 – Gerhard Ringel, Austrian mathematician and academic (b. 1919) | ||
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1709: Public test of Bartolomeu de Gusmão's airship fails to take place.
1860: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer publishes complete working plans for a submarine which is undetectable by alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter.
1880: Mathematician and academic Oswald Veblen born. His work will find application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.
1886: Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess wins Pulitzer prize, hailed as "most entertaining illustration of our time."