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File:Vito Volterra.jpg|link=Vito Volterra (nonfiction)|1940: Mathematician and physicist [[Vito Volterra (nonfiction)|Vito Volterra]] dies. He was one of the founders of functional analysis, making contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations. | File:Vito Volterra.jpg|link=Vito Volterra (nonfiction)|1940: Mathematician and physicist [[Vito Volterra (nonfiction)|Vito Volterra]] dies. He was one of the founders of functional analysis, making contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations. | ||
||1948: André Bloch dies ... mathematician who is best remembered for his fundamental contribution to complex analysis. Bloch was institutionalized in a mental asylum for thirty-one years of his life, during which all of his mathematical output was produced. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=andré+bloch | |||
||1950: Television: CBS's mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. | ||1950: Television: CBS's mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. | ||
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1708: Mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus dies. He invented the Tschirnhaus transformation, by which certain intermediate terms are removed from a given algebraic equation.
1851: Famed gem detective and crime-fighter Niles Cartouchian (1900s) accuses rival gem detective Egon Rhodomunde of trafficking in illegal time crystals.
1889: Physicist and brewer James Prescott Joule dies. He studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work.
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1932: Mathematician Anne Penfold Street born. She will specialize in combinatorics, authoring several textbooks; her work on sum-free sets will become a standard reference for its subject matter.
1940: Mathematician and physicist Vito Volterra dies. He was one of the founders of functional analysis, making contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations.
1965: Documentary photography and photojournalist Dorothea Lange dies.
2002: Gem detective and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde accuses actor-crytographer Niles Cartouchian of trafficking in illegal time crystals.
2016: Signed first edition of Spiral Rings 2 used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence.