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||1683: Camillo-Guarino Guarini dies ... architect of the Piedmontese Baroque, active in Turin as well as Sicily, France, and Portugal. He was a Theatine priest, mathematician, and writer. Pic. | ||1683: Camillo-Guarino Guarini dies ... architect of the Piedmontese Baroque, active in Turin as well as Sicily, France, and Portugal. He was a Theatine priest, mathematician, and writer. Pic. | ||
||1741: Euler writes to Goldbach that he has proved “a theorem of Fermat’s” according to which primes p = 4n + 3 cannot divide a sum of two squares a2+b2 except when both a and b are divisible by p. Correspondence of Euler and Goldbach. https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/03/on-this-day-in-math-march-6.html Pic. | |||
||1787: Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist and astronomer born ... His original work was mainly concerned with optics and spectroscopy. In particular he carried out a classical redetermination of the speed of light by A. H. L. Fizeau's method (see Fizeau-Foucault Apparatus), introducing various improvements in the apparatus, which added greatly to the accuracy of the results. Pic. | ||1787: Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist and astronomer born ... His original work was mainly concerned with optics and spectroscopy. In particular he carried out a classical redetermination of the speed of light by A. H. L. Fizeau's method (see Fizeau-Foucault Apparatus), introducing various improvements in the apparatus, which added greatly to the accuracy of the results. Pic. | ||
||1805 Legendre introduced least squares. Gauss had them ten years earlier but had not published, so some controversy ensued. *VFR https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/03/on-this-day-in-math-march-6.html Pic. | |||
||1815: Wilhelm Olbers, an amateur German astronomer who was a doctor by profession, discovered the periodic comet now named for him. https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/03/on-this-day-in-math-march-6.html Pic. | |||
||1832: Gauss responds to his “old, unforgettable friend,” Farkas (Wolfgang) Bolyai, that he has been working on non-Euclidean geometry “in part already for 30–35 years.” In the same letter Gauss points out several flaws in Euclid. https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/03/on-this-day-in-math-march-6.html Pic. | |||
||1841: Marie Alfred Cornu born ... physicist. The French generally refer to him as Alfred Cornu. | ||1841: Marie Alfred Cornu born ... physicist. The French generally refer to him as Alfred Cornu. | ||
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||1912: August Joseph Ignaz Toepler born ... physicist known for his experiments in electrostatics. Pic. | ||1912: August Joseph Ignaz Toepler born ... physicist known for his experiments in electrostatics. Pic. | ||
||1913: This date was written by Niels Bohr on his first paper describing his new ideas on atomic structure, and mailed to his mentor, Ernest Rutherford. It was one of three historic papers he wrote on this subject. Pic. | |||
File:Akiva Yaglom.jpg|link=Akiva Yaglom (nonfiction)|1921: Physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist [[Akiva Yaglom (nonfiction)|Akiva Yaglom]] born. He will contribute to statistical turbulence theory and random processes theory. | File:Akiva Yaglom.jpg|link=Akiva Yaglom (nonfiction)|1921: Physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist [[Akiva Yaglom (nonfiction)|Akiva Yaglom]] born. He will contribute to statistical turbulence theory and random processes theory. | ||
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||1951: The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins. | ||1951: The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins. | ||
||1953: James Watson and Francis Crick submitted to the journal Nature their first article on the structure of DNA. It was published in the 25 Apr 1953 issue. "We wish to put forward a radically different structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid. This structure has two helical chains each coiled around the same axis... Both chains follow right-handed helices... The novel feature of the structure is the manner in which the two chains are held together by purine and pyrimidine bases... They are joined together in pairs, a single base from one chain being hydrogen-bonded to a single base from the other chain, so that the two lie side by side with identical z-co-ordinates. One of the pair must be a purine and the other a pyrimidine in order for bonding to occur."* https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/03/on-this-day-in-math-march-6.html Pic. | |||
||1961: Edgar Krahn dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||1961: Edgar Krahn dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
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1665: The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, publishes the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
1846: Social activist and alleged superhero The Governess warns the United States of America not to begin its upcoming Civil War ahead of schedule.
1847: Mathematician Cesare Arzelà born. He will contribute to the theory of functions, notably his characterization of sequences of continuous functions.
1876: Mathematician Thomas Joannes Stieltjes uses continued fraction theory to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1921: Physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist Akiva Yaglom born. He will contribute to statistical turbulence theory and random processes theory.
1939: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand von Lindemann dies. He proved (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number.
1981: Modern dance company Rhizolith Group debuts new work based on the life of Ayn Rand.
1982: Writer and philosopher Ayn Rand dies.
2009: Priceless block of four Superimposed Fraunhofer stamps, stolen the year before by the Forbidden Ratio gang, recovered by APTO field agents.
2017: The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling awarded Pulitzer Prize, declared "the most entertaining illustration of the year."
2018: Signed first edition of Green Sprouts used in high-energy literature experiments spontaneously develops artificial intelligence.
