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||1986: Helene (Hel) Braun dies ... mathematician who specialized in number theory and modular forms; proving the convergence of the Eisenstein series. She also wrote an autobiography, ''The Beginning of A Scientific Career'', describing her experience as a female scientist in the Third Reich. No pic. | ||1986: Helene (Hel) Braun dies ... mathematician who specialized in number theory and modular forms; proving the convergence of the Eisenstein series. She also wrote an autobiography, ''The Beginning of A Scientific Career'', describing her experience as a female scientist in the Third Reich. No pic. | ||
||1991: Andreas Floer | ||1991: Andreas Floer commits suicide ... mathematician who made seminal contributions to the areas of geometry, topology, and mathematical physics, in particular the invention of Floer homology. Pic. | ||
||1993: Camillo Herbert Grötzsch dies ... mathematician. He was born in Döbeln and died in Halle. Grötzsch worked in graph theory. He was the discoverer and eponym of the Grötzsch graph, a triangle-free graph that requires four colors in any graph coloring, and Grötzsch's theorem, the result that every triangle-free planar graph requires at most three colors. | ||1993: Camillo Herbert Grötzsch dies ... mathematician. He was born in Döbeln and died in Halle. Grötzsch worked in graph theory. He was the discoverer and eponym of the Grötzsch graph, a triangle-free graph that requires four colors in any graph coloring, and Grötzsch's theorem, the result that every triangle-free planar graph requires at most three colors. | ||
Revision as of 11:16, 9 October 2018
1579: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke invents new type of scrying engine which pre-visualizes tangents and secants. He will use the engine to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.
1618: Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).
1801: Mathematician Joseph Ludwig Raabe born. He will discover Raabe's ratio test, which determines the convergence or divergence of an infinite series, in some cases.
1836: Astronomer Francis Baily observes "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse.
1864: Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery incorporated into army medical manuals on both sides of the American Civil War.
1888: Council of algorithms announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.
2018: News study suggests that Greedy coloring algorithms "have been systematically corrupted by a consortium of math criminals including Anarchimedes, Forbidden Ratio, and parties as yet uncounted and unidentified."