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||2007: Wilfred Kaplan dies ... professor of mathematics. His research focused on dynamical systems, the topology of curve families, complex function theory, and differential equations.  Pic.
||2007: Wilfred Kaplan dies ... professor of mathematics. His research focused on dynamical systems, the topology of curve families, complex function theory, and differential equations.  Pic.


||2010: Albert Ghiorso dies ... nuclear scientist and co-discoverer of a record 12 chemical elements on the periodic table.  
||2010: Albert Ghiorso dies ... nuclear scientist and co-discoverer of a record 12 chemical elements on the periodic table. Pic.


||2012: Paul Trevier Bateman dies ... number theorist, known for formulating the Bateman–Horn conjecture on the density of prime number values generated by systems of polynomials and the New Mersenne conjecture relating the occurrences of Mersenne primes and Wagstaff primes. Pic: http://celebratio.org/Bateman_PT/cover/323/
||2012: Paul Trevier Bateman dies ... number theorist, known for formulating the Bateman–Horn conjecture on the density of prime number values generated by systems of polynomials and the New Mersenne conjecture relating the occurrences of Mersenne primes and Wagstaff primes. Pic: http://celebratio.org/Bateman_PT/cover/323/

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  • 1791: Polymath Charles Babbage born. He will construct mechanical computers which anticipate the concept of programmable digital computers.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    2017: Steganographic analysis of Blue Foliage 2 unexpectedly reveals "at least five kilobytes" of encrypted data.

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