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||1720: Caribbean pirate Calico Jack is captured by the Royal Navy. | ||1720: Caribbean pirate Calico Jack is captured by the Royal Navy. | ||
||1891: James Chadwick born ... physicist and academic, | ||1891: James Chadwick born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1904: Hans Lewy born ... mathematician, known for his work on partial differential equations and on the theory of functions of several complex variables. Pic. | ||1904: Hans Lewy born ... mathematician, known for his work on partial differential equations and on the theory of functions of several complex variables. Pic. | ||
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File:Andrey Kolmogorov.jpg|link=Andrey Kolmogorov (nonfiction)|1987: Mathematician and academic [[Andrey Kolmogorov (nonfiction)|Andrey Kolmogorov]] dies. He made significant contributions to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity. | File:Andrey Kolmogorov.jpg|link=Andrey Kolmogorov (nonfiction)|1987: Mathematician and academic [[Andrey Kolmogorov (nonfiction)|Andrey Kolmogorov]] dies. He made significant contributions to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity. | ||
||1989: Mathematician Dmitry Konstantinovich Faddeev dies. Faddeev and his wife Vera jointly wrote the influential book ''Numerical Methods in Linear Algebra''; they also developed an algorithm to find the resolvent matrix of a given matrix A. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Dmitry+Konstantinovich+Faddeev | |||
File:Skip Digits.jpg|link=Skip Digits|1981: Musician and alleged math criminal [[Skip Digits]] begins North American tour. | File:Skip Digits.jpg|link=Skip Digits|1981: Musician and alleged math criminal [[Skip Digits]] begins North American tour. | ||
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1631: Astronomer and mathematician Michael Maestlin dies. He was a mentor to Johannes Kepler, and played a sizable part in his adoption of the Copernican system.
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a artillery barrage in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1947: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of the cinema of the United States, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
1985: Physicist and crime-fighter William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor which detects and prevents crimes against mathematical constants.
1987: Mathematician and academic Andrey Kolmogorov dies. He made significant contributions to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity.
1981: Musician and alleged math criminal Skip Digits begins North American tour.
2018: Signed first edition of Creature 4 stolen from the Louvre in daylight robbery by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.
