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||2007: NASA launched the Dawn probe, its first purely exploratory mission to use ion propulsion, from Cape Canaveral. | ||2007: NASA launched the Dawn probe, its first purely exploratory mission to use ion propulsion, from Cape Canaveral. | ||
||2014: Dorothy Maharam Stone dies ... mathematician born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, who made important contributions to measure theory and became the namesake of Maharam's theorem and Maharam algebra. Pic: https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/stone.htm | |||
File:Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery|2017: The well-known illustration ''Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery'' sells for seven million dollars at charity benefit for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery|2017: The well-known illustration ''Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery'' sells for seven million dollars at charity benefit for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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1737: Physician, mathematician, and engineer Hubert Gautier dies. He authored the first book on bridge building, Traité des Ponts, in 1716, as well as books on roads, fortifications, antiquities, geology, and a first manual for watercolor practitioners.
1879: Mathematician and philosopher Hans Hahn born. He will make contributions to functional analysis, topology, set theory, the calculus of variations, real analysis, and order theory.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1962: Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
2017: The well-known illustration Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery sells for seven million dollars at charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.