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||1882: Ernst Erich Jacobsthal born ... mathematician. his dissertation, ''Anwendung einer Formel aus der Theorie der quadratischen Reste'' ("Application of a Formula from the Theory of Quadratic Remainders"), provided a proof that prime numbers of the form 4n + 1 are the sum of two square numbers. Pic: https://archiv.pressestelle.tu-berlin.de/doku/200jahre/ausstellung/2.etage/flure/nr.20/set20.3.htm | ||1882: Ernst Erich Jacobsthal born ... mathematician. his dissertation, ''Anwendung einer Formel aus der Theorie der quadratischen Reste'' ("Application of a Formula from the Theory of Quadratic Remainders"), provided a proof that prime numbers of the form 4n + 1 are the sum of two square numbers. Pic: https://archiv.pressestelle.tu-berlin.de/doku/200jahre/ausstellung/2.etage/flure/nr.20/set20.3.htm | ||
||1918: Abraham Nemeth born ... mathematician and | ||1918: Abraham Nemeth born ... mathematician, academic, and inventor. Nemeth was blind, and was known for developing a system for blind people to read and write mathematics. Pic: https://www.google.com/search?q=abraham+nemeth | ||
||1923: Cyril Andrew Ponnamperuma born ... scientist in the fields of chemical evolution and the origin of life. | ||1923: Cyril Andrew Ponnamperuma born ... scientist in the fields of chemical evolution and the origin of life. | ||
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||1925: Mór Réthy (or Moritz Réthy) dies - mathematician. Pic. | ||1925: Mór Réthy (or Moritz Réthy) dies - mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1937: William Sealy Gosset dies ... statistician. He published under the pen name Student, and developed the Student's t-distribution. | ||1937: William Sealy Gosset dies ... statistician. He published under the pen name Student, and developed the Student's t-distribution. Pic. | ||
||1964: With the success of the nuclear weapons test named "596", China became the world's fifth nuclear power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/596_(nuclear_test) | ||1964: With the success of the nuclear weapons test named "596", China became the world's fifth nuclear power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/596_(nuclear_test) | ||
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1584: Famed illustration Leonardo Draws Clock Head is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I remember them", says artist, inventor, and math detective Leonardo da Vinci.
1655: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo dies. His Elim (Palms) deals with astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.
1797: Carl Friedrich Gauss records in his diary that he has discovered a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem.
1843: Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
1868: Physicist and crime-fighter Gustav Kirchhoff uses the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.
2017: Spectrographic analysis of Taffy Bomb reveals "at least two, possibly three" previously unknown shades of the color pink.