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||2001: FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. | ||2001: FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. | ||
||2006 The game of Connect Four was first solved by James D. Allen (Oct 1, 1988), and independently by Victor Allis (Oct 16, 1988). First player can force a win. Strongly solved by John Tromp's 8-ply database (Feb 4, 1995). It was weakly solved for all boardsizes where width+height is at most 15 (Feb 18, 2006). *Wik https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-this-day-in-math-february-18.html | |||
File:Clock Head 2.jpg|link=Clock Head 2|2017: Steganographic analysis of [[Clock Head 2]] illustration reveal "nearly a gigabyte of encrypted data." | File:Clock Head 2.jpg|link=Clock Head 2|2017: Steganographic analysis of [[Clock Head 2]] illustration reveal "nearly a gigabyte of encrypted data." |
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901: Physician, astronomer, and mathematician Thābit ibn Qurra dies. He made important discoveries in algebra, geometry, and astronomy; in astronomy, Thabit was one of the first reformers of the Ptolemaic system.
1583: Cryptographer, diplomat, and crime-fighter Blaise de Vigenère uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to invent a cipher which is resistant to mathematical crimes.
1809: Physicist and academic Antoine César Becquerel uses electricity to power new type of scrying engine.
1851: Mathematician and academic Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi dies. He made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.
1881: Mathematician and crime-fighter Karl Weierstrass publishes new theory of mathematical analysis with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1899: Mathematician and academic Marius Sophus Lie dies. He largely created the theory of continuous symmetry and applied it to the study of geometry and differential equations.
1930: While studying photographs taken in January, astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
1930: Mathematician Emmy Noether publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which transform theoretical physics into practical physics.
1967: American physicist and academic J. Robert Oppenheimer dies. His achievements in physics included the Born–Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wavefunctions, work on the theory of electrons and positrons, the Oppenheimer–Phillips process in nuclear fusion, and the first prediction of quantum tunneling. Oppenheimer has been called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Clock Head 2 illustration reveal "nearly a gigabyte of encrypted data."
2018: Signed first edition of Cowries sells for twenty-two thousand dollars in charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.