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||1919: Friedrich Otto Rudolf Sturm dies .... mathematician. Sturm's Theorem is based on finding the complex imaginary roots of an infinite arbitrary-integer series. Pic. | ||1919: Friedrich Otto Rudolf Sturm dies .... mathematician. Sturm's Theorem is based on finding the complex imaginary roots of an infinite arbitrary-integer series. Pic. | ||
||1921: Verner Emil Hoggatt Jr. born ... mathematician, known mostly for his work in Fibonacci numbers and number theory. Pic: http://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/bstud/hoggatt.html | |||
||1921: Violette Szabo born ... secret agent. | ||1921: Violette Szabo born ... secret agent. | ||
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1730: Astronomer Charles Messier born. He will publish an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that will come to be known as the 110 "Messier objects".
1796: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse dies. He was the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.
1823: Havelock announces plan to collaborate with David Rittenhouse and Lord Kelvin on building an orrery which models the heat death of the universe.
1824: Lord Kelvin born. He will do much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.
1850: Mathematician and crime-fighter Carl Wilhelm Borchardt publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use arithmetic-geometric mean theory to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1913: Computer scientist and physicist Maurice Wilkes born. He will pioneer several important developments in computing, including microcode, symbolic labels, macros, subroutine libraries, and timesharing.
2016: Swirl is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.