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File:Evangelista Torricelli by Lorenzo Lippi.jpg|link=Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|1647: Physicist and mathematician [[Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|Evangelista Torricelli]] dies. He invented the barometer, made advances in optics, and worked on the method of indivisibles.
File:Evangelista Torricelli by Lorenzo Lippi.jpg|link=Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|1647: Physicist and mathematician [[Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|Evangelista Torricelli]] dies. He invented the barometer, made advances in optics, and worked on the method of indivisibles.


||1733 – Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian priest, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1667). Pic.
File:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.jpg|link=Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|1713: [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Gottfried Leibniz]], in a letter to Johann Bernoulli, observed that an alternating series whose terms monotonically decrease to zero in absolute value is convergent.


||Charles Mason (d. 25 October 1786) was an English astronomer who made significant contributions to 18th-century science and American history, particularly through his involvement with the survey of the Mason–Dixon line
||1733: Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri dies ... priest, mathematician, and philosopher. Pic.


||Samuel Heinrich Schwabe (b. 25 October 1789) a German astronomer remembered for his work on sunspots.
||1786: Charles Mason dies ... astronomer who made significant contributions to 18th-century science and American history, particularly through his involvement with the survey of the Mason–Dixon line


||The Reverend Dr Robert Stirling (b. 25 October 1790) was a Scottish clergyman, and inventor of the Stirling engine.
||1789: Samuel Heinrich Schwabe born ... astronomer remembered for his work on sunspots.


||1811 – Évariste Galois, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1832)
||1790: The Reverend Dr Robert Stirling born ... clergyman, and inventor of the Stirling engine.


||1840 – Helen Blanchard, American inventor (d. 1922) sewing machines
||1811: Évariste Galois born ... mathematician and theorist.


||Pierre Eugène Marcellin Berthelot (b. 25 October 1827) was a French chemist and politician noted for the Thomsen–Berthelot principle of thermochemistry. He synthesized many organic compounds from inorganic substances, providing a large amount of counterevidence to the theory of Jöns Jakob Berzelius that organic compounds required organisms in their synthesis. Pic.
||1840: Helen Blanchard born ... inventor ... sewing machines.


||Henry Norris Russell (b. October 25, 1877) was an American astronomer who, along with Ejnar Hertzsprung, developed the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram (1910). Pic.
||1827: Pierre Eugène Marcellin Berthelot born ... chemist and politician noted for the Thomsen–Berthelot principle of thermochemistry. He synthesized many organic compounds from inorganic substances, providing a large amount of counterevidence to the theory of Jöns Jakob Berzelius that organic compounds required organisms in their synthesis. Pic.


||Lester Randolph Ford Sr. (b. October 25, 1886) was an American mathematician
||1877: Henry Norris Russell born ... astronomer who, along with Ejnar Hertzsprung, developed the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram (1910). Pic.
 
||1886: Lester Randolph Ford Sr. born ... mathematician.


||Georgi Delchev Bradistilov (b. 25 October 1904 (12 October 1904 OS) – 18 June 1977) was a Bulgarian mathematician. Pic.
||Georgi Delchev Bradistilov (b. 25 October 1904 (12 October 1904 OS) – 18 June 1977) was a Bulgarian mathematician. Pic.

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  • 1647: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli dies. He invented the barometer, made advances in optics, and worked on the method of indivisibles.

    1647: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli dies. He invented the barometer, made advances in optics, and worked on the method of indivisibles.

  • 1713: Gottfried Leibniz, in a letter to Johann Bernoulli, observed that an alternating series whose terms monotonically decrease to zero in absolute value is convergent.

    1713: Gottfried Leibniz, in a letter to Johann Bernoulli, observed that an alternating series whose terms monotonically decrease to zero in absolute value is convergent.

  • 1927: Writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes received Pulitzer Prize for his essay on Alice Beta's contributions to Gnomon algorithm theory.

    1927: Writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes received Pulitzer Prize for his essay on Alice Beta's contributions to Gnomon algorithm theory.

  • 1927: Mathematician, naval engineer, and cryptid-hunter Aleksey Krylov publishes his pioneering theory of efficient computation, later known as Krylon's Gnomon algorithm, which detects and repels aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter.

    1927: Mathematician, naval engineer, and cryptid-hunter Aleksey Krylov publishes his pioneering theory of efficient computation, later known as Krylon's Gnomon algorithm, which detects and repels aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter.

  • 1928: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic Peter Naur born. He will contribute to the design, structure, and performance of computer programs and algorithms.

    1928: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic Peter Naur born. He will contribute to the design, structure, and performance of computer programs and algorithms.

  • 1962: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alfred Tarski publishes new theory of metamathematical analysis which quickly finds applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1962: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alfred Tarski publishes new theory of metamathematical analysis which quickly finds applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

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