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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."

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 File:Stefan Banach.jpg|link=Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|1945: Mathematician and academic [[Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|Stefan Banach]] dies. He was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
+||1949: André-Louis Debierne dies ... chemist and is considered the discoverer of the element actinium. In 1910, he and Marie Curie prepared radium in metallic form in visible amounts. Pic.
 File:Kurt Gödel.jpg|link=Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|1950: Mathematician and philosopher [[Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|Kurt Gödel]] addresses the International Congress of Mathematicians, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on his work in relativity theory.