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||1914: Professor He Zehui born ... nuclear physicist who worked to develop and exploit nuclear physics in Germany and China. Pic. | ||1914: Professor He Zehui born ... nuclear physicist who worked to develop and exploit nuclear physics in Germany and China. Pic. | ||
||1915: Laurent-Moïse Schwartz born ... mathematician. He pioneered the theory of distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1950 for his work on the theory of distributions. | ||1915: Laurent-Moïse Schwartz born ... mathematician. He pioneered the theory of distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1950 for his work on the theory of distributions. Pic. | ||
||1925: Johan Jensen dies ... mathematician and engineer. | ||1925: Johan Jensen dies ... mathematician and engineer. Pic. | ||
File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1926: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] reverse-engineers [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]], retrieves complete copy of lecture by [[William Oughtred (nonfiction)|William Oughtred]]. | File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1926: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] reverse-engineers [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]], retrieves complete copy of lecture by [[William Oughtred (nonfiction)|William Oughtred]]. |
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1223 BC: Solar eclipse occurs; the event is recorded in a Syrian clay tablet, in the Ugaritic language.
1499: Polymath Johannes Trithemius uses Gnomon algorithm functions to generate new class of cryptographic numen.
1574: Mathematician William Oughtred born. He will invent the slide rule in 1622.
1615: Mathematician and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei prevents alleged supervillain Anarchimedes from assassinating mathematician William Oughtred.
1616: Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published.
1640: Didacus automaton attends and records lecture by William Oughtred, which it will later use to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1827: Mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace dies. He made important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy.
1836: Inventor Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
1926: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann reverse-engineers Didacus automaton, retrieves complete copy of lecture by William Oughtred.
2008: Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum dies. He is considered one of the fathers of modern artificial intelligence.
2009: Scientist and combat surgeon Asclepius Myrmidon demonstrates new techniques in combat medicine using Gnomon algorithm techniques.
2016: Computer programmer and engineer Ray Tomlinson dies. He implemented the first email system on ARPANET, including the "@" separator which is still in use today.
2016: Signed first edition of Pilgrim sells for thirty-two thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.