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||1865 – American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 unarmed merchant vessels. | ||1865 – American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 unarmed merchant vessels. | ||
||Giusto Bellavitis (d. 6 November 1880) was an Italian mathematician, senator, and municipal councilor. His principle achievement is the invention of the method of equipollences, a new method of analytic geometry that is both philosophical and fruitful. Pic. | |||
||1886 – Ida Barney, American astronomer, mathematician, and academic (d. 1982) | ||1886 – Ida Barney, American astronomer, mathematician, and academic (d. 1982) | ||
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1656: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Morin dies.
1872: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alfred Clebsch publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use algebraic geometry and invariant theory to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1944: Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1971: The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
1973: The Pioneer 10 space probe begins taking photographs of Jupiter. A total of about 500 images will be transmitted.
2015: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.