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||Georg Friedrich Hildebrandt (d. 1816) was a pharmacist, chemist, and anatomist. | ||Georg Friedrich Hildebrandt (d. 1816) was a pharmacist, chemist, and anatomist. | ||
||Norman Robert Pogson (b. 23 March 1829) was an English astronomer who worked in India at the Madras observatory. He discovered several minor planets and made observations on comets. He introduced a mathematical scale of stellar magnitudes with the ratio of two successive magnitudes being the fifth root of one hundred (~2.512) and referred to as Pogson's ratio. Pic. | |||
||1842 – Susan Jane Cunningham, American mathematician (d. 1921) | ||1842 – Susan Jane Cunningham, American mathematician (d. 1921) |
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1749: Mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy.
1882: Mathematician Emmy Noether born. She will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
1964: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie uses the wave nature of electrons to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2001: The Mir spacecraft is de-orbited. It had been in orbit for 15 years, it was occupied for ten of those years.
2011: Jean Bartik dies. She was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.
2017: Signed first edition of the "Enter or Exit" sequence from Game of Chance sells for five thousand dollars in charity auction of victims of crimes against mathematical constants.