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||1913: Gustaf de Laval dies ... engineer ... made important contributions to the design of steam turbines and dairy machinery. Pic. | ||1913: Gustaf de Laval dies ... engineer ... made important contributions to the design of steam turbines and dairy machinery. Pic. | ||
||1917: Herman Feshbach born ... physicist. He was an Institute Professor Emeritus of physics at MIT. Feshbach is best known for Feshbach resonance and for writing, with Philip M. Morse, Methods of Theoretical Physics. | ||1917: Herman Feshbach born ... physicist. He was an Institute Professor Emeritus of physics at MIT. Feshbach is best known for Feshbach resonance and for writing, with Philip M. Morse, Methods of Theoretical Physics. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=herman+feshbach | ||
||1922: Gerrit Lekkerkerker born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||1922: Gerrit Lekkerkerker born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1922: Ulysses by James Joyce is published. | ||1922: Ulysses by James Joyce is published. Pic. | ||
||1925: Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race. | ||1925: Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race. Pic: map. | ||
||1928: Felix Arnold Edward Pirani born ... theoretical physicist specializing in gravitational physics and general relativity. Pirani and Herman Bondi wrote a series of articles (1959 to 1989) that established the existence of plane wave solutions for gravitational waves based on general relativity. Pic: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12150493/Felix-Pirani-mathematician-obituary.html | ||1928: Felix Arnold Edward Pirani born ... theoretical physicist specializing in gravitational physics and general relativity. Pirani and Herman Bondi wrote a series of articles (1959 to 1989) that established the existence of plane wave solutions for gravitational waves based on general relativity. Pic: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12150493/Felix-Pirani-mathematician-obituary.html | ||
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||1935: Jean-Louis Verdier born ... mathematician who worked, under the guidance of Alexander Grothendieck, on derived categories and Verdier duality. Pic. | ||1935: Jean-Louis Verdier born ... mathematician who worked, under the guidance of Alexander Grothendieck, on derived categories and Verdier duality. Pic. | ||
||1935: Leonarde Keeler administers polygraph tests to two murder suspects, the first time polygraph evidence was admitted in U.S. courts. | ||1935: Leonarde Keeler administers polygraph tests to two murder suspects, the first time polygraph evidence was admitted in U.S. courts. Pic. | ||
||1943: X-10 Graphite Reactor: The reactor "went critical" ... and produced its first plutonium in early 1944. It supplied the Los Alamos Laboratory with its first significant amounts of plutonium, and its first reactor-bred product. Studies of these samples heavily influenced bomb design. | ||1943: X-10 Graphite Reactor: The reactor "went critical" ... and produced its first plutonium in early 1944. It supplied the Los Alamos Laboratory with its first significant amounts of plutonium, and its first reactor-bred product. Studies of these samples heavily influenced bomb design. Pic. | ||
||1943: A Short Stirling Pathfinder was downed near Rotterdam. German forces examining the wreckage found an apparatus which they called the "Rotterdam Gerät" (Rotterdam Device). They quickly determined it to be a centimeter wavelength generator, although its exact purpose was unclear. This was revealed when a second example was captured, and the crew of the aircraft revealed it to be a mapping system. Wolfgang Martini immediately set up a team to understand the new system and devise countermeasures. This work led to the FuG 350 Naxos device, a radio receiver using a DF loop for an aircraft installation, covered with a teardrop-shaped fairing and tuned to the H2S frequencies, that was used to track the Pathfinders in flight. Pic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FuG_240_Berlin | ||1943: A Short Stirling Pathfinder was downed near Rotterdam. German forces examining the wreckage found an apparatus which they called the "Rotterdam Gerät" (Rotterdam Device). They quickly determined it to be a centimeter wavelength generator, although its exact purpose was unclear. This was revealed when a second example was captured, and the crew of the aircraft revealed it to be a mapping system. Wolfgang Martini immediately set up a team to understand the new system and devise countermeasures. This work led to the FuG 350 Naxos device, a radio receiver using a DF loop for an aircraft installation, covered with a teardrop-shaped fairing and tuned to the H2S frequencies, that was used to track the Pathfinders in flight. Pic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FuG_240_Berlin | ||
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File:Constantin Carathéodory.jpg|link=Constantin Carathéodory (nonfiction)|1950: Mathematician and author [[Constantin Carathéodory (nonfiction)|Constantin Carathéodory]] dies. He pioneered the axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach. | File:Constantin Carathéodory.jpg|link=Constantin Carathéodory (nonfiction)|1950: Mathematician and author [[Constantin Carathéodory (nonfiction)|Constantin Carathéodory]] dies. He pioneered the axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach. | ||
||1957: Grigory Landsberg dies ... physicist and academic. | ||1957: Grigory Landsberg dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1965: Mathematician and academic George Neville Watson dies. He applied complex analysis to the theory of special functions. In 1918 he proved a significant result known as Watson's lemma, that has many applications in the theory on the asymptotic behaviour of exponential integrals. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=george+neville+watson | ||1965: Mathematician and academic George Neville Watson dies. He applied complex analysis to the theory of special functions. In 1918 he proved a significant result known as Watson's lemma, that has many applications in the theory on the asymptotic behaviour of exponential integrals. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=george+neville+watson | ||
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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.