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||1913: Karl Stein born ... mathematician. He is well known for complex analysis and cryptography. Stein manifolds and Stein factorization are named after him. Pic. | ||1913: Karl Stein born ... mathematician. He is well known for complex analysis and cryptography. Stein manifolds and Stein factorization are named after him. Pic. | ||
||1923: Mathematician and academic Alexander Abian born. Abian gained a degree of international notoriety for his claim that blowing up the Moon would solve virtually every problem of human existence, stating that a Moonless Earth wouldn't wobble, eliminating both the seasons and its associated events like heat waves, snowstorms and hurricanes. Pic: http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/File:Abian_alex.jpg | |||
||1923: Milton "Bags" Jackson born ... jazz vibraphonist, usually thought of as a bebop player, although he performed in several jazz idioms. He is especially remembered for his cool swinging solos as a member of the Modern Jazz Quartet and his penchant for collaborating with several hard bop and post-bop players. | ||1923: Milton "Bags" Jackson born ... jazz vibraphonist, usually thought of as a bebop player, although he performed in several jazz idioms. He is especially remembered for his cool swinging solos as a member of the Modern Jazz Quartet and his penchant for collaborating with several hard bop and post-bop players. | ||
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1548: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist Giordano Bruno born. He will be burned at the stake (17 February 1600).
1671: Mathematician Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus removes intermediate terms from a given algebraic equation using Gnomon algorithm techniques.
1748: Mathematician Johann Bernouli dies. He made important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.
1766: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi uses Gnomon algorithm to forecast theoretical existence of dwarf planet Ceres.
1862: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming is appointed to the rank of Captain in the 10th Battalion Volunteer Rifles of Canada (later known as the Royal Regiment of Canada).
1893: telephone switchboard technology modified to send and receive Gnomon algorithm data.
1894: Physicist, mathematician, and academic Satyendra Nath Bose born. His work on quantum mechanics will provide the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.
1933: Ready Kilowatt makes cameo appearance in Dard Hunter Versus the Shape Thief.
1962: Brainiac Explains lecture series wins Pulitzer Prize.
1978: Mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang born. He will invent the fields of traffic engineering, queueing theory, and telephone networks analysis.
2018: Golden Spiral declared Picture of the Year by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.