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||1952: Max Dehn dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||1952: Max Dehn dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||
||1954: Physicist Richard Gans dies. He invented Gans theory, which gives the solutions to the Maxwell equations for prolate and oblate spheroidal particles. Pic: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00016-008-0416-0 | |||
||1954: The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow. | ||1954: The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow. | ||
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1831: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Sophie Germain dies. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem provided a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after.
1880: Mathematician and academic Carl Wilhelm Borchardt dies. He contributed to arithmetic-geometric mean theory, continuing work by Gauss and Lagrange.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1975: Mathematician and physicist G. I. Taylor dies. He made major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.
2010: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says Niles Cartouchian (1900s).