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||1606: Everard Digby | ||1606: Everard Digby dies ... a member of the group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. No DOB. Pic. | ||
||1606: John Grant dies ... | ||1606: John Grant dies ... a member of the group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. No DOB. Pic. | ||
||1606: Robert Wintour dies ... | ||1606: Robert Wintour dies ... a member of the group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. No DOB. Pic. | ||
||1610: 1610 Galileo writes to Belisario Vinta, with notes on his long observation of the moon with a new twenty-power scope. A letter containing much of what was to appear about the Moon in Sidereus Nuncius, two months later. *Drake, Galileo at Work; 1978 https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/01/on-this-day-in-math-january-30.html | ||1610: 1610 Galileo writes to Belisario Vinta, with notes on his long observation of the moon with a new twenty-power scope. A letter containing much of what was to appear about the Moon in Sidereus Nuncius, two months later. *Drake, Galileo at Work; 1978 https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/01/on-this-day-in-math-january-30.html | ||
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||1805: Edward Sang born ... mathematician and civil engineer, best known for having computed large tables of logarithms, with the help of two of his daughters. Pic. | ||1805: Edward Sang born ... mathematician and civil engineer, best known for having computed large tables of logarithms, with the help of two of his daughters. Pic. | ||
||1826: The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened. | ||1826: The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened. Pic. | ||
||1830: | File:Carl Friedrich Gauss 1840 by Jensen.jpg|link=Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|1830: In a letter to Laplace, [[Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|Carl Friedrich Gauss]] writes about a "curious problem" that he had been working on for twelve years. He gives the limiting value of the frequency of distribution of positive integers in the continued fraction of a random number (now called the Gauss-Kuzmin Distribution) as log2(1+x) . Gauss then asks if Laplace can offer help in finding the error term. | ||
|| *Math World https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/01/on-this-day-in-math-january-30.html | |||
||1835: In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen as well as Jackson himself. | ||1835: In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen as well as Jackson himself. Pic: etching of event. | ||
||1841: Samuel Loyd born ... chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician. Pic. | ||1841: Samuel Loyd born ... chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician. Pic. | ||
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||1948: Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. | ||1948: Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. | ||
||1948: Orville Wright dies ... pilot and engineer, co-founded the Wright Company. | ||1948: Orville Wright dies ... pilot and engineer, co-founded the Wright Company. Pic. | ||
||1950: Andrei Andreevich Bolibrukh born ... mathematician. He was known for his work on ordinary differential equations especially Hilbert's twenty-first problem (Riemann–Hilbert problem). Pic: http://www.mi-ras.ru/index.php?c=inmemoria&l=1 | ||1950: Andrei Andreevich Bolibrukh born ... mathematician. He was known for his work on ordinary differential equations especially Hilbert's twenty-first problem (Riemann–Hilbert problem). Pic: http://www.mi-ras.ru/index.php?c=inmemoria&l=1 | ||
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1661: Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, is ritually executed more than two years after his death, on the 12th anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed.
1661: Mathematician William Oughtred uses Gnomon algorithm functions to extract data from the severed head of Oliver Cromwell.
1736: inventor, engineer, and chemist James Watt born. He will make major improvements to the steam engine.
1830: In a letter to Laplace, Carl Friedrich Gauss writes about a "curious problem" that he had been working on for twelve years. He gives the limiting value of the frequency of distribution of positive integers in the continued fraction of a random number (now called the Gauss-Kuzmin Distribution) as log2(1+x) . Gauss then asks if Laplace can offer help in finding the error term.
1884: Inventor Herman Hollerith invents new type of scrying engine which generates images from residual consciousness in the severed head of Oliver Cromwell.
1954: Asclepius Myrmidon discovers unregistered halting problem, predicts new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1975: The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.
1976: Comic book artist and crime-fighter Gil Kane publishes illustrated history of math crimes throughout history.
1998: Mathematician Samuel Eilenberg dies. He co-founded category theory with Saunders Mac Lane, and proposed the Eilenberg swindle (a construction applying the telescoping cancellation idea to projective modules).