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||1522: Lodovico Ferrari born ... mathematician and academic. Pic search scanty: https://www.google.com/search?q=lodovico+ferrari&oq=Lodovico+Ferrari | ||1522: Lodovico Ferrari born ... mathematician and academic. Pic search scanty: https://www.google.com/search?q=lodovico+ferrari&oq=Lodovico+Ferrari | ||
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||1957: Grigory Landsberg dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||1957: Grigory Landsberg dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1959: Karl Hessenberg dies ... mathematician and engineer. The Hessenberg matrix form is named after him. The Hessenberg matrix form is named after him. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=karl+hessenberg | |||
||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.