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||Adolph-Andrei Pavlovich Yushkevich (b. 15 July 1906) was a Soviet historian of mathematics, leading expert in medieval mathematics of the East and the work of Leonhard Euler. Pic. | ||Adolph-Andrei Pavlovich Yushkevich (b. 15 July 1906) was a Soviet historian of mathematics, leading expert in medieval mathematics of the East and the work of Leonhard Euler. Pic. | ||
||Henryk Zygalski | ||1908: Henryk Zygalski born ... mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma ciphers before and during World War II. Pic. | ||
||Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir | ||1909: Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir born ... physicist best known for his research on the two-fluid model of superconductors (together with C. J. Gorter) in 1934 and the Casimir effect (together with D. Polder) in 1948. | ||
||Tibor Gallai | ||1912: Tibor Gallai born... mathematician. He worked in combinatorics, especially in graph theory. Pic: http://tudosnaptar.kfki.hu/historia/egyen.php?namenev=gallai | ||
||1915 | ||1915: Albert Ghiorso born ... chemist and academic. | ||
||1918 | ||1918: Bertram Brockhouse born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1919 | ||1919: Hermann Emil Fischer dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... discovered the Fischer esterification. He developed the Fischer projection, a symbolic way of drawing asymmetric carbon atoms. | ||
||Robert Bruce Merrifield | ||1921: Robert Bruce Merrifield born ... biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for the invention of solid phase peptide synthesis. Pic. | ||
||1922 | ||1922: Leon M. Lederman born ... physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1926 | ||1926: Raymond Gosling born ... physicist and academic. | ||
||1928 | ||1928: Carl Woese born ... microbiologist and biophysicist. | ||
||1930 | ||1930: Stephen Smale born ... American mathematician and computer scientist (Alive Aug. 2018) | ||
||1955 | ||1955: Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others. | ||
||Nina Karlovna Bari | ||1961: Nina Karlovna Bari died ... mathematician known for her work on trigonometric series. | ||
||1975 – Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was both the last launch of an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets. | ||1975 – Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was both the last launch of an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets. |
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998: Mathematician and astronomer Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī dies. His Almagest was widely read by medieval Arabic astronomers in the centuries after his death.
1188: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1573: Architect Inigo Jones born. He will be one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.
1848: Engineer, sociologist, economist, political scientist, and philosopher Vilfredo Pareto born. He will apply mathematics to economic analysis, asserting that the distribution of incomes and wealth in society is not random and that a consistent pattern appears throughout history, in all parts of the world and in all societies.
1864: Adventurer and alleged time-travelling "Pirate of the Prairies" Wallace War-Heels defeats Baron Zersetzung in single combat.
1865: Mathematician Wilhelm Wirtinger born. He will contribute to complex analysis, geometry, algebra, number theory, Lie groups and knot theory.
1866: Social activist and alleged superhero The Governess chastises math criminals, shames them into returning stolen digits.
2013: Computer scientist and academic John T. Riedl dies. He was a founder of the field of recommender systems, social computing, and interactive intelligent user interface systems.