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||1817: Charles Auguste Briot (19 July 1817) was a French mathematician who worked on elliptic functions. The Académie des Sciences awarded him the Poncelet Prize in 1882. Pic. | ||1817: Charles Auguste Briot (19 July 1817) was a French mathematician who worked on elliptic functions. The Académie des Sciences awarded him the Poncelet Prize in 1882. Pic. | ||
||1817: Francesco Castracane degli Antelminelli born ... naturalist. He was reportedly one of the first to introduce microphotography into the study of biology. His first experiments in applying the camera to the microscope were made as early as 1862 with diatomaceæ, and he subsequently made these microorganisms his chief study. Pic: https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/2023813/https___phaidra_cab_unipd_it_o_1480.html | |||
||1824: Agustín de Iturbide dies ... general and emperor. | ||1824: Agustín de Iturbide dies ... general and emperor. | ||
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1631: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini dies. His work promoted rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.
1632: Mathematician and linguist Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac discovers a new method of constructing magic squares, which he will soon use to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1814: Engineer and businessman Samuel Colt born. He will found Colt's Manufacturing Company.
1893: Famed gem detective and diplomat Niles Cartouchian foils villains, returns stolen relics, brokers peace accord.
1894: Mathematician and academic Aleksandr Khinchin born. He will become one of the founders of modern probability theory.
1895: Celebrity time-traveller Radium Jane says that Extract of Radium gives her the steady nerves she needs to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1982: Physicist Hugh Everett III dies. He proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics.
1984: New type of Lorenz system displays artificial intelligence, forecasts crimes against mathematical constants up to ten megabytes per fluid minute in advance.