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File:John Cleves Symmes, Jr. 1820.png|link=John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|1829: Army officer, trader, and lecturer [[John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|John Cleves Symmes, Jr.]] dies. He invented a variant of the Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles. | File:John Cleves Symmes, Jr. 1820.png|link=John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|1829: Army officer, trader, and lecturer [[John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|John Cleves Symmes, Jr.]] dies. He invented a variant of the Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles. | ||
||1830: U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans. | ||1830: U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans. Pic. | ||
File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1834: Inventor and engineer [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to disprove Hollow Earth Theory. | File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1834: Inventor and engineer [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to disprove Hollow Earth Theory. | ||
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||1912: Ruby Payne-Scott born ... physicist and astronomer. | ||1912: Ruby Payne-Scott born ... physicist and astronomer. | ||
||1912: Hans Julius Zassenhaus born ... mathematician, known for work in many parts of abstract algebra, and as a pioneer of computer algebra. | ||1912: Hans Julius Zassenhaus born ... mathematician, known for work in many parts of abstract algebra, and as a pioneer of computer algebra. Pic. | ||
||1916: Joseph Pierre (Joe) LaSalle born ... mathematician specialising in dynamical systems and responsible for important contributions to stability theory, such as LaSalle's invariance principle which bears his name. | ||1916: Joseph Pierre (Joe) LaSalle born ... mathematician specialising in dynamical systems and responsible for important contributions to stability theory, such as LaSalle's invariance principle which bears his name. | ||
Revision as of 12:35, 26 February 2019
1829: Army officer, trader, and lecturer John Cleves Symmes, Jr. dies. He invented a variant of the Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.
1834: Inventor and engineer Charles Grafton Page uses Gnomon algorithm functions to disprove Hollow Earth Theory.
1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
1974: Euglena Junction wins the Prime Time Emmy for Best New Show. Broadcasting live from the Pantages Theater via NBC, host Johnny Carson calls it "an extraordinary study of the genus Euglena, and a brilliant parody of Petticoat Junction."
2015: Information scientist Claire Kelly Schultz dies.
2016: Signed first edition of Ringmaster stolen from the Guggenheim by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.