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||1584: John Day dies ... printer. | ||1584: John Day dies ... printer. No DOB. Pic. | ||
File:Joseph-Louis Lagrange.jpg|link=Joseph-Louis Lagrange (nonfiction)|1754: [[Joseph-Louis Lagrange (nonfiction)|Joseph-Louis Lagrange]] publishes his first work, in the form of a letter in Italian. A month later he realized that he had rediscovered Leibniz's formula for the nth derivative of a product. | File:Joseph-Louis Lagrange.jpg|link=Joseph-Louis Lagrange (nonfiction)|1754: [[Joseph-Louis Lagrange (nonfiction)|Joseph-Louis Lagrange]] publishes his first work, in the form of a letter in Italian. A month later he realized that he had rediscovered Leibniz's formula for the nth derivative of a product. | ||
||1773: George Edwards dies ... biologist and ornithologist. | ||1773: George Edwards dies ... biologist and ornithologist. Pic. | ||
||1796: Franz Berwald born ... surgeon and composer. | ||1796: Franz Berwald born ... surgeon and composer. | ||
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||1964: Samarendra Nath Roy dies ... mathematician and an applied statistician. Pic. | ||1964: Samarendra Nath Roy dies ... mathematician and an applied statistician. Pic. | ||
||1968: Henry Hallett Dale dies ... pharmacologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1968: Henry Hallett Dale dies ... pharmacologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1972: The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite. | ||1972: The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite. | ||
||1977: Jesse Wakefield Beams dies ... physicist. Manhattan project | ||1977: Jesse Wakefield Beams dies ... physicist. Manhattan project. Pic: gravestone. | ||
||1981: Lazar Aronovich Lyusternik dies ... mathematician. He is famous for his work in topology and differential geometry, to which he applied the variational principle. | ||1981: Lazar Aronovich Lyusternik dies ... mathematician. He is famous for his work in topology and differential geometry, to which he applied the variational principle. | ||
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1754: Joseph-Louis Lagrange publishes his first work, in the form of a letter in Italian. A month later he realized that he had rediscovered Leibniz's formula for the nth derivative of a product.
1829: William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
1885: The well-known illustration Interview with Wallace War-Heels is stolen by math criminals, who demand computational ransom.
1934: Mathematician and crime-fighter Hans Hahn publishes new analysis of set theory which soons finds application in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1928: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin born. She will discover the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.
1962: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta uses Telstar to communicate with AESOP.
1962: Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
2017: AESOP re-broadcasts Walter Cronkite's 1962 trans-Atlantic television program.