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File:William Stanley.jpg|link=William Stanley (nonfiction)|1829: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist [[William Stanley (nonfiction)|William Stanley]] born. He will design and manufacture precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes. | File:William Stanley.jpg|link=William Stanley (nonfiction)|1829: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist [[William Stanley (nonfiction)|William Stanley]] born. He will design and manufacture precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes. | ||
||1842: Julian Sochocki born ... mathematician and academic. | ||1842: Julian Sochocki born ... mathematician and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Julian+Sochocki | ||
||1849: Leopold Bernhard Gegenbauer born ... mathematician remembered best as an algebraist. Gegenbauer polynomials are named after him. Pic. | ||1849: Leopold Bernhard Gegenbauer born ... mathematician remembered best as an algebraist. Gegenbauer polynomials are named after him. Pic. | ||
||1881: Gustav Herglotz born ... mathematician. He is best known for his works on the theory of relativity and seismology. | ||1881: Gustav Herglotz born ... mathematician. He is best known for his works on the theory of relativity and seismology. Pic. | ||
File:Joseph Wedderburn.jpg|link=Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|1882: Mathematician [[Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|Joseph Wedderburn]] born. He will make significant contributions to algebra, proving that a finite division algebra is a field, and proving part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras. | File:Joseph Wedderburn.jpg|link=Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|1882: Mathematician [[Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|Joseph Wedderburn]] born. He will make significant contributions to algebra, proving that a finite division algebra is a field, and proving part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras. | ||
||1893: Cornelius Lanczos born ... mathematician and physicist. | ||1893: Cornelius Lanczos born ... mathematician and physicist. Pic. | ||
||1894: | ||1894: Hans Kramers born ... physicist who worked with Niels Bohr to understand how electromagnetic waves interact with matter. Pic. | ||
||1896: Kazimierz Kuratowski born ... mathematician and logician. | ||1896: Kazimierz Kuratowski born ... mathematician and logician. Pic. | ||
||1897: Gertrude Blanch born ... mathematician. | ||1897: Gertrude Blanch born ... mathematician ... did pioneering work in numerical analysis and computation. She was a leader of the Mathematical Tables Project in New York from its beginning. She worked later as the assistant director and leader of the Numerical Analysis at UCLA computing division and was head of mathematical research for the Aerospace Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Pic. | ||
File:Fightin' Bert Russell.jpg|link=Bertrand Russell|1900: [[Bertrand Russell|"Fightin'" Bert Russell]] agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference. | File:Fightin' Bert Russell.jpg|link=Bertrand Russell|1900: [[Bertrand Russell|"Fightin'" Bert Russell]] agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference. | ||
||1903: Bartel Leendert van der Waerden born ... mathematician and historian of mathematics. | ||1903: Bartel Leendert van der Waerden born ... mathematician and historian of mathematics. Pic. | ||
File:Ayn Rand signature 1949.svg|link=Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|1905: Writer and philosopher [[Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|Ayn Rand]] born. | File:Ayn Rand signature 1949.svg|link=Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|1905: Writer and philosopher [[Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|Ayn Rand]] born. | ||
||1907: Dmitri Mendeleev dies ... chemist and academic. | ||1907: Dmitri Mendeleev dies ... chemist and academic. Pic. | ||
File:Agner Krarup Erlang.jpg|link=Agner Krarup Erlang (nonfiction)|1908: Mathematician, engineer, and crime-fighter [[Agner Krarup Erlang (nonfiction)|Agner Krarup Erlang]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which use telephone network analysis to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Agner Krarup Erlang.jpg|link=Agner Krarup Erlang (nonfiction)|1908: Mathematician, engineer, and crime-fighter [[Agner Krarup Erlang (nonfiction)|Agner Krarup Erlang]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which use telephone network analysis to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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1768: Mathematician and mechanician Charles Étienne Louis Camus dies. He was the author of Cours de mathématiques (Paris, 1766), along with a number of essays on mathematical and mechanical subjects.
1786: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Jacques Philippe Marie Binet born. He will make significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra.
1829: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist William Stanley born. He will design and manufacture precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes.
1882: Mathematician Joseph Wedderburn born. He will make significant contributions to algebra, proving that a finite division algebra is a field, and proving part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras.
1900: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.
1905: Writer and philosopher Ayn Rand born.
1908: Mathematician, engineer, and crime-fighter Agner Krarup Erlang publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use telephone network analysis to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1950: Mathematician and author Constantin Carathéodory dies. He pioneered the axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach.
1969: New evidence suggests that The Eel Escapes Hydrolab is based on actual events.
1970: Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic and political activist Bertrand Russell dies.
1974: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Imre Lakatos dies. He is known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Three Kings reveals "at least five hundred and twelve kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.
2017: Mathematician Bertram Kostant dies. He was one of the principal developers of the theory of geometric quantization.