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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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 ||1721: John Keill dies ... Scottish mathematician, academic and author who was an important disciple of Isaac Newton.  Pic: book cover.
+||1730: Louis Necker born ... mathematician, physicist, professor and a banker in Paris. He was the elder brother of Jacques Necker, minister of Finance in France when the French Revolution broke out. Pic.
 ||1772: William Borlase born ... naturalist, geologist, and antiquary. He will oppress Methodist preachers in his capacity of magistrate: various Methodist preachers were seized on warrants issued by him and press-ganged to serve on ships abroad. Pic.