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||1654: Ole Worm dies ... physician and historian. | ||1654: Ole Worm dies ... physician and historian. | ||
||1663: Guillaume Amontons born ... physicist and instrument maker. | ||1663: Guillaume Amontons born ... physicist and instrument maker. Pic. | ||
||1682: Mathematician Michele Rolle published an elegant solution to a difficult problem publicly posed by Ozanam: Find four integers the difference of any two of which is a perfect square as well as the sum of three of the numbers. This brought him public recognition. Pic. | ||1682: Mathematician Michele Rolle published an elegant solution to a difficult problem publicly posed by Ozanam: Find four integers the difference of any two of which is a perfect square as well as the sum of three of the numbers. This brought him public recognition. Pic. | ||
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1635: Mathematician, theologian, and crime-fighter Marin Mersenne uses new theory of acoustics to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1649: Architect Inigo Jones uses Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry to design buildings which are resistant to crimes against mathematical constants.
1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1899: Georg Cantor writes to Dedekind, remarking that his "diagonal process" could be used to show that the power set of a set has more elements than the set itself.
1945: Mathematician and academic Stefan Banach dies. He was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
1950: Mathematician and philosopher Kurt Gödel addresses the International Congress of Mathematicians, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on his work in relativity theory.
2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Discovers Time Travel sells for two and a half million dollars."