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File:Charles Babbage by Antoine Claudet c1847-51.jpg|link=Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|1791: Polymath [[Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|Charles Babbage]] born. He will construct mechanical computers which anticipate the concept of programmable digital computers. | File:Charles Babbage by Antoine Claudet c1847-51.jpg|link=Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|1791: Polymath [[Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|Charles Babbage]] born. He will construct mechanical computers which anticipate the concept of programmable digital computers. | ||
||1801: Charles-Pierre-Mathieu Combes born ... engineer and academic ... He has been recognised as a model of what is now called a consultant engineer. Pic. | |||
||1827: Étienne Léopold Trouvelot born ... artist, astronomer and amateur entomologist. He is noted for the import and release of the gypsy moth into North America. Pic. Drawings: http://www.huntington.org/WebAssets/Templates/exhibitiondetail.aspx?id=25040 http://www.graphicine.com/etienne-trouvelot-astronomical-drawings/ | ||1827: Étienne Léopold Trouvelot born ... artist, astronomer and amateur entomologist. He is noted for the import and release of the gypsy moth into North America. Pic. Drawings: http://www.huntington.org/WebAssets/Templates/exhibitiondetail.aspx?id=25040 http://www.graphicine.com/etienne-trouvelot-astronomical-drawings/ | ||
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File:Gustave Eiffel 1888.jpg|link=Gustave Eiffel (nonfiction)|1899: Engineer and crime-fighter [[Gustave Eiffel (nonfiction)|Gustave Eiffel]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against physics]]. | File:Gustave Eiffel 1888.jpg|link=Gustave Eiffel (nonfiction)|1899: Engineer and crime-fighter [[Gustave Eiffel (nonfiction)|Gustave Eiffel]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against physics]]. | ||
||1914: Richard Hubert Bruck born ... mathematician best known for his work in the field of algebra, especially in its relation to projective geometry and combinatorics. Pic. | ||1914: Richard Hubert Bruck born ... mathematician best known for his work in the field of algebra, especially in its relation to projective geometry and combinatorics. Pic. | ||
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||1973: Harold Hotelling dies ... mathematical statistician and an influential economic theorist, known for Hotelling's law, Hotelling's lemma, and Hotelling's rule in economics, as well as Hotelling's T-squared distribution in statistics. Pic. | ||1973: Harold Hotelling dies ... mathematical statistician and an influential economic theorist, known for Hotelling's law, Hotelling's lemma, and Hotelling's rule in economics, as well as Hotelling's T-squared distribution in statistics. Pic. | ||
||1979: Helmut Hasse dies ... mathematician working in algebraic number theory, known for fundamental contributions to class field theory, the application of p-adic numbers to local class field theory and diophantine geometry (Hasse principle), and to local zeta functions. | ||1979: Helmut Hasse dies ... mathematician working in algebraic number theory, known for fundamental contributions to class field theory, the application of p-adic numbers to local class field theory and diophantine geometry (Hasse principle), and to local zeta functions. Pic. | ||
||1991: The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union. | ||1991: The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union. | ||
Revision as of 07:54, 11 March 2019
1791: Polymath Charles Babbage born. He will construct mechanical computers which anticipate the concept of programmable digital computers.
1896: Physician and physiologist Emil du Bois-Reymond dies. He discovered nerve action potential, and developed experimental electrophysiology.
1898: Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
1899: Engineer and crime-fighter Gustave Eiffel uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against physics.
2006: Physicist and mathematician Martin David Kruskal dies. He made fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, including the discovery and theory of solitons.
2016: Survey data reveals widespread Scrimshaw binging the day after Christmas.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Blue Foliage 2 unexpectedly reveals "at least five kilobytes" of encrypted data.