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File:Thomas Fincke.jpg|link=Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|1581: Mathematician and physicist [[Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|Thomas Fincke]] develops new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on tangents and secants.
File:Thomas Fincke.jpg|link=Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|1581: Mathematician and physicist [[Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|Thomas Fincke]] develops new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on tangents and secants.


||1690 – The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas.
||1690: The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas.


||1737 – Tommaso Ceva, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1648)
||1737: Tommaso Ceva dies ... mathematician and academic.


File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1767: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] uses [[scrying engine]] to pre-visualize the dwarf planet Ceres.
File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1767: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] uses [[scrying engine]] to pre-visualize the dwarf planet Ceres.


||Karl Brandan Mollweide, (3 February 1774 in Wolfenbüttel – 10 March 1825 in Leipzig) was a German mathematician and astronomer in Halle and Leipzig.  
||1774: Karl Brandan Mollweide born ... German mathematician and astronomer in Halle and Leipzig.  


||1777 – John Cheyne, Scottish physician and author (d. 1836)
||1777: John Cheyne born ...  physician and author.


||Gideon Mantell (b. 3 February 1790) was an English obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist. His attempts to reconstruct the structure and life of Iguanodon began the scientific study of dinosaurs: in 1822 he was responsible for the discovery (and the eventual identification) of the first fossil teeth, and later much of the skeleton, of Iguanodon. Pic.
||1790: Gideon Mantell born ... obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist. His attempts to reconstruct the structure and life of Iguanodon began the scientific study of dinosaurs: in 1822 he was responsible for the discovery (and the eventual identification) of the first fossil teeth, and later much of the skeleton, of Iguanodon. Pic.


||1811: dies: Johann Beckmann was a German scientific author and coiner of the word technology, to mean the science of trades. He was the first man to teach technology and write about it as an academic subject
||1811: Johann Beckmann dies ... scientific author and coiner of the word technology, to mean the science of trades. He was the first man to teach technology and write about it as an academic subject


||1821 – Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician and educator (d. 1910)
||1821 – Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician and educator (d. 1910)
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File:Wilhelm Bauer.gif|link=Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|1863:  Inventor and engineer [[Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Bauer]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to power new type of submarine, capable of remaining submerged as long as computation is maintained.
File:Wilhelm Bauer.gif|link=Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|1863:  Inventor and engineer [[Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Bauer]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to power new type of submarine, capable of remaining submerged as long as computation is maintained.


||Gotthilf Heinrich Ludwig Hagen (d. February 3, 1884) was a German civil engineer who made important contributions to fluid dynamics, hydraulic engineering and probability theory.
||1884: Gotthilf Heinrich Ludwig Hagen dies ... civil engineer who made important contributions to fluid dynamics, hydraulic engineering and probability theory.


||1887 – Georg Trakl, Austrian pharmacist and poet (d. 1914)
||1887: Georg Trakl born ... pharmacist and poet.


||Paul Hermann Scherrer (b. 3 February 1890) was a Swiss physicist.
||1890: Paul Hermann Scherrer born ... physicist.


File:Gaston_Julia.jpg|link=Gaston Julia (nonfiction)|1893: Mathematician [[Gaston Julia (nonfiction)|Gaston Maurice Julia]] born. He will devise the formula for the Julia set.
File:Gaston_Julia.jpg|link=Gaston Julia (nonfiction)|1893: Mathematician [[Gaston Julia (nonfiction)|Gaston Maurice Julia]] born. He will devise the formula for the Julia set.


||Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn (b. February 3, 1898) was a Soviet mathematician of Jewish origin who is best known for his contributions in dimension theory, and for developing Urysohn's Metrization Theorem and Urysohn's Lemma. Pic.
||1895: Thomas Penyngton Kirkman dies ... mathematician and ordained minister of the Church of England. Pic: https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kirkman


||1905 – Arne Beurling, Swedish-American mathematician and academic (d. 1986) Arne Carl-August Beurling (b. 3 February 1905) was a Swedish mathematician and professor of mathematics at Uppsala University (1937–1954) and later at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Beurling worked extensively in harmonic analysis, complex analysis and potential theory. The "Beurling factorization" helped mathematical scientists to understand the Wold decomposition, and inspired further work on the invariant subspaces of linear operators and operator algebras, e.g. Håkan Hedenmalm's factorization theorem for Bergman spaces.
||1898: Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn born ...mathematician of Jewish origin who is best known for his contributions in dimension theory, and for developing Urysohn's Metrization Theorem and Urysohn's Lemma. Pic.


||1909 – Simone Weil, French mystic and philosopher (d. 1943)
||1905: Arne Beurling born ... mathematician and academic ... worked extensively in harmonic analysis, complex analysis and potential theory. The "Beurling factorization" helped mathematical scientists to understand the Wold decomposition, and inspired further work on the invariant subspaces of linear operators and operator algebras, e.g. Håkan Hedenmalm's factorization theorem for Bergman spaces.
 
||1909: Simone Weil born ... mystic and philosopher.


||Francis Joseph Murray (b. February 3, 1911) was a mathematician, known for his foundational work (with John von Neumann) on functional analysis, and what subsequently became known as von Neumann algebras.
||Francis Joseph Murray (b. February 3, 1911) was a mathematician, known for his foundational work (with John von Neumann) on functional analysis, and what subsequently became known as von Neumann algebras.

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  • 1468: Blacksmith, goldsmith, inventor, and publisher Johannes Gutenberg dies.

    1468: Blacksmith, goldsmith, inventor, and publisher Johannes Gutenberg dies.

  • 1581: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke develops new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on tangents and secants.

    1581: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke develops new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on tangents and secants.

  • 1767: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi uses scrying engine to pre-visualize the dwarf planet Ceres.

    1767: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi uses scrying engine to pre-visualize the dwarf planet Ceres.

  • 1862: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician Jean-Baptiste Biot dies. He established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization of light.

    1862: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician Jean-Baptiste Biot dies. He established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization of light.

  • 1863: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer uses Gnomon algorithm functions to power new type of submarine, capable of remaining submerged as long as computation is maintained.

    1863: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer uses Gnomon algorithm functions to power new type of submarine, capable of remaining submerged as long as computation is maintained.

  • 1893: Mathematician Gaston Maurice Julia born. He will devise the formula for the Julia set.

    1893: Mathematician Gaston Maurice Julia born. He will devise the formula for the Julia set.

  • 1929: Mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang dies. He invented the fields of traffic engineering, queueing theory, and telephone networks analysis.

    1929: Mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang dies. He invented the fields of traffic engineering, queueing theory, and telephone networks analysis.

  • 1959: Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting."

    1959: Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting."

  • 1961: The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.

    1961: The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.

  • 1975: Physicist and engineer William D. Coolidge dies. He made major contributions to X-ray machines, and developed ductile tungsten for incandescent light bulbs.

    1975: Physicist and engineer William D. Coolidge dies. He made major contributions to X-ray machines, and developed ductile tungsten for incandescent light bulbs.

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