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||1914: Jacques Feldbau born ... mathematician ... died on 22 April 1945 at the Ganacker Camp, annex of the concentration camp of Flossenbürg in Germany. He worked on differential geometry and topology ... one of the founders of the theory of fiber bundles. He is the one who first proved that a fiber bundle over a simplex is trivializable and who used this to classify bundles over spheres. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Feldbau.html | ||1914: Jacques Feldbau born ... mathematician ... died on 22 April 1945 at the Ganacker Camp, annex of the concentration camp of Flossenbürg in Germany. He worked on differential geometry and topology ... one of the founders of the theory of fiber bundles. He is the one who first proved that a fiber bundle over a simplex is trivializable and who used this to classify bundles over spheres. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Feldbau.html | ||
||1916: Nathan Jacob Fine born ... mathematician who worked on basic hypergeometric series. He solved the Jeep problem in 1946. Pic: http://www.ams.org/notices/199506/fine.pdf | |||
||1921: Alexander Kronrod born ... mathematician and computer scientist. | ||1921: Alexander Kronrod born ... mathematician and computer scientist. | ||
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1659: Chemist and physician Georg Ernst Stahl born. His works on phlogiston will be accepted as an explanation for chemical processes until the late 18th century.
1792: Astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil dies. He discovered what are now known as the Messier objects M32, M36 and M38, as well as the nebulosity in M8, and he was the first to catalogue the dark nebula sometimes known as Le Gentil 3 (in the constellation Cygnus).
1879: Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
1904: Illustration of The Eel fighting Neptune Slaughter awarded Pulitzer Award for Best Investigative Reporting.
1905: Physicist and engineer Karl Guthe Jansky born. He will be one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.
1927: Physicist, engineer, and inventor Nikola Tesla introduces six new inventions including single-phase electric power.
2005: The Venus Express detects evidence of electrical artificial intelligence AESOP in orbit around the planet Venus.
2018: Signed first edition of Dragons Fighting sells for undisclosed amount to "a well-known Gnomon algorithm theorist" in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against physical constants.