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||1812: Richard March Hoe born ... engineer and businessman, invented the Rotary printing press. Pic. | ||1812: Richard March Hoe born ... engineer and businessman, invented the Rotary printing press. Pic. | ||
||1818: Richard Jordan Gatling born ... inventor, invented the Gatling gun. | ||1818: Richard Jordan Gatling born ... inventor, invented the Gatling gun. Pic. | ||
||1851: Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster born ... physicist known for his work in spectroscopy, electrochemistry, optics, X-radiography and the application of harmonic analysis to physics. Pic. | ||1851: Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster born ... physicist known for his work in spectroscopy, electrochemistry, optics, X-radiography and the application of harmonic analysis to physics. Pic. | ||
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||1906: Ernesto Cesàro dies ... mathematician who worked in the field of differential geometry. This is his most important contribution, which he described in Lezione di geometria intrinseca (Naples, 1890). This work contains descriptions of curves which today are eponymously named after him. pic | ||1906: Ernesto Cesàro dies ... mathematician who worked in the field of differential geometry. This is his most important contribution, which he described in Lezione di geometria intrinseca (Naples, 1890). This work contains descriptions of curves which today are eponymously named after him. pic | ||
||1917: Désiré André dies ... mathematician, best known for his work on Catalan numbers and alternating permutations. | ||1917: Désiré André dies ... mathematician, best known for his work on Catalan numbers and alternating permutations. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=désiré+andré | ||
||1918: Maxime Bôcher dies ... mathematician who published about 100 papers on differential equations, series, and algebra. He also wrote elementary texts such as Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry. Bôcher's theorem, Bôcher's equation, and the Bôcher Memorial Prize are named after him. | ||1918: Maxime Bôcher dies ... mathematician who published about 100 papers on differential equations, series, and algebra. He also wrote elementary texts such as Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry. Bôcher's theorem, Bôcher's equation, and the Bôcher Memorial Prize are named after him. | ||
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1725: Astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil born. He will discover what are now known as the Messier objects M32, M36 and M38, as well as the nebulosity in M8, and he was the first to catalogue the dark nebula sometimes known as Le Gentil 3 (in the constellation Cygnus).
1900: Mathematician and academic Haskell Curry born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic.
1933: Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
2017: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden wins Pulitzer Prize.
2018: Green Sprouts voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
