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||1999: Tosio Kato dies ... mathematician who worked with partial differential equations, mathematical physics and functional analysis. | ||1999: Tosio Kato dies ... mathematician who worked with partial differential equations, mathematical physics and functional analysis. | ||
||2002: Heinz von Foerster | ||2002: Heinz von Foerster dies ... physicist and philosopher. A polymath, von Foerster gained renown in fields from computer science and artificial intelligence to epistemology, and researched high-speed electronics and electro-optics switching devices as a physicist, and in biophysics, the study of memory and knowledge. He worked on cognition based on neurophysiology, mathematics, and philosophy. Pic. | ||
File:Paul Halmos.jpg|link=Paul Halmos (nonfiction)|2006: Mathematician and academic [[Paul Halmos (nonfiction)|Paul Halmos]] dies. He made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces). | File:Paul Halmos.jpg|link=Paul Halmos (nonfiction)|2006: Mathematician and academic [[Paul Halmos (nonfiction)|Paul Halmos]] dies. He made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces). | ||
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File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|2007: Signed first edition of ''[[The Safe-Cracker]]'' provides clues which lead to the arrest and imprisonment of [[math criminals]]. | File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|2007: Signed first edition of ''[[The Safe-Cracker]]'' provides clues which lead to the arrest and imprisonment of [[math criminals]]. | ||
||2009: Shaun Wylie dies ... mathematician and World War II codebreaker. | ||2009: Shaun Wylie dies ... mathematician and World War II codebreaker. Pic. | ||
||2013: Abraham Nemeth dies ... mathematician and | ||2013: Abraham Nemeth dies ... 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 | ||
Two_Bugs_Fighting.jpg|link=Two Bugs Fighting (nonfiction)|''[[Two Bugs Fighting (nonfiction)|Two Bugs Fighting]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | Two_Bugs_Fighting.jpg|link=Two Bugs Fighting (nonfiction)|''[[Two Bugs Fighting (nonfiction)|Two Bugs Fighting]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | ||
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1588: Philosopher and scientist Bernardino Telesio dies. While his natural theories were later disproven, his emphasis on observation influenced the emergence of the scientific method.
1589: Physician, archaeologist, and crime-fighter Michele Mercati publishes study of prehistoric stone tools, including evidence of prehistoric crimes against mathematical constants.
1667: Mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton becomes a fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He had earned his bachelor's degree in 1665 and then spent two years at home in Lincolnshire inventing much of differential and integral calculus while Cambridge was closed due to plague.
1853: Mathematician and politician François Arago born. He observed that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect now known as eddy current.
1890: Mathematician and crime-fighter Édouard Lucas translates the Fibonacci sequence into a series of Gnomon algorithm functions which will quickly find application in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1925: John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
1955: ENIAC retired. After disassembly, parts of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first general purpose electronic computer, were shipped to the Smithsonian for display.
1963: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter John Crank uses the Crank–Nicolson method to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2006: Mathematician and academic Paul Halmos dies. He made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces).
2007: Signed first edition of The Safe-Cracker provides clues which lead to the arrest and imprisonment of math criminals.
Two Bugs Fighting voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.