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1722: Mathematician and academic Pierre Varignon dies. He simplified the proofs of many propositions in mechanics, adapted Leibniz's calculus to the inertial mechanics of Newton's Principia, and treated mechanics in terms of the composition of forces.
1822: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer born. He will design and invent submarines.
1948: Mathematician Wilhelm Ackermann publishes his research on applications of the Ackermann function to detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
2016: Signed first edition of Blue City Sunset purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a well-known mathematician residing in New Minneapolis, Canada."

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 ||1847: Captain François Mingaud dies ... infantry officer in the French army and a carom billiards player. He is credited as the inventor of the leather tip for a billiards cue, a "possibly not original idea" that he perfected while imprisoned in Bicêtre (now Bicêtre Hospital) for political outspokenness. This revolutionized the game of billiards, allowing the cue ball to be finely manipulated by the application of spin. Pic.
+||1890: Edward Sang dies ... mathematician and civil engineer, best known for having computed large tables of logarithms, with the help of two of his daughters. Pic.
 ||1895: John Russell Hind dies ... astronomer. Early discoverer of asteroids.  Pic.