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File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1893: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas A. Edison]] finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1893: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas A. Edison]] finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
||1902: Jovan Karamata born ... mathematician. He is remembered for contributions to analysis, in particular, the Tauberian theory and the theory of slowly varying functions.  Pic.


File:George Gabriel Stokes.jpg|link=Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|1903:  Physicist and mathematician [[Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet]] dies. He made seminal contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics.  
File:George Gabriel Stokes.jpg|link=Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|1903:  Physicist and mathematician [[Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet]] dies. He made seminal contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics.  

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  • 1462: Polymath Johannes Trithemius born. He will be remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.

    1462: Polymath Johannes Trithemius born. He will be remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.

  • 1767: Mathematician and crime-fighter Charles Étienne Louis Camus publishes updated edition of Cours de mathématiques with new section on the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1767: Mathematician and crime-fighter Charles Étienne Louis Camus publishes updated edition of Cours de mathématiques with new section on the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1893: Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.

    1893: Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.

  • 1903: Physicist and mathematician Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet dies. He made seminal contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics.

    1903: Physicist and mathematician Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet dies. He made seminal contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics.

  • 1934: Mathematician, philosopher, and crime-fighter Imre Lakatos uses his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1934: Mathematician, philosopher, and crime-fighter Imre Lakatos uses his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1944: Pultizer Prize awarded to Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition).

    1944: Pultizer Prize awarded to Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition).

  • 1976: Physicist and academic Werner Heisenberg dies. He introduced the uncertainty principle -- in quantum mechanics, any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle can be known.

    1976: Physicist and academic Werner Heisenberg dies. He introduced the uncertainty principle -- in quantum mechanics, any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle can be known.

  • 1976: Mathematician Bertram Kostant uses geometric quantization to detect and record the electroquantum afterlife of Werner Heisenberg.

    1976: Mathematician Bertram Kostant uses geometric quantization to detect and record the electroquantum afterlife of Werner Heisenberg.

  • 2017: Chromatographic analysis of Blue Green Spiral reveals previously unknown color "midway between blue and green."

    2017: Chromatographic analysis of Blue Green Spiral reveals previously unknown color "midway between blue and green."

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