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||1879: Ludwig Otto Hesse dies ... mathematician. He worked mainly on algebraic invariants, and geometry. The Hessian matrix, the Hesse normal form, the Hesse configuration, the Hessian group, Hessian pairs, Hesse's theorem, Hesse pencil, and the Hesse transfer principle are named after him. Pic. | ||1879: Ludwig Otto Hesse dies ... mathematician. He worked mainly on algebraic invariants, and geometry. The Hessian matrix, the Hesse normal form, the Hesse configuration, the Hessian group, Hessian pairs, Hesse's theorem, Hesse pencil, and the Hesse transfer principle are named after him. Pic. | ||
||1909: Saunders Mac Lane born ... mathematician who co-founded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg. | ||1900: Étienne Lenoir dies ... engineer, designed the internal combustion engine. Pic. | ||
||1909: Saunders Mac Lane born ... mathematician who co-founded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg. Pic. | |||
||1912: Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov born ... mathematician, physicist, and mountaineer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=aleksandr+danilovich+aleksandrov | ||1912: Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov born ... mathematician, physicist, and mountaineer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=aleksandr+danilovich+aleksandrov | ||
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1805: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician William Rowan Hamilton born. He will make important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the quaternion.
1833: Physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère uses principles of electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics", to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1834: Mathematician and philosopher John Venn born. He will invent the Venn diagram, now widely used set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science.
1963: Cryptanalyst, mathematician, and crime-fighter Solomon Kullback visits the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada, where he gives an impromptu lecture on the application of data processing technology to the interpretation of cryptographic numina.
2016: The Shovel depicts The Custodian in the act of reversing contract violations by Egon Rhodomunde and Baron Zersetzung.
2018: Chromatographic analysis of Fire Dance reveals "at least five hundred" previously unknown shades of red.