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||1819: Annibale de Gasparis born ... astronomer discovered asteroids. Pic. | ||1819: Annibale de Gasparis born ... astronomer discovered asteroids. Pic. | ||
||1830: Jan Śniadecki dies ... mathematician and astronomer. Śniadecki will make his observations on recently discovered planetoids. His O rachunku losów (On the Calculation of Chance, 1817) was a work in probability. Pic. | |||
||1846: Mór Réthy (or Moritz Réthy) born ... mathematician and academic ... theoretical mechanics. Pic. | ||1846: Mór Réthy (or Moritz Réthy) born ... mathematician and academic ... theoretical mechanics. Pic. | ||
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||1891: Rodion Osievich Kuzmin born ... mathematician, known for his works in number theory and analysis. He will be known for the Gauss–Kuzmin distribution is a discrete probability distribution that arises as the limit probability distribution of the coefficients in the continued fraction expansion of a random variable uniformly distributed in (0, 1). Pic. | ||1891: Rodion Osievich Kuzmin born ... mathematician, known for his works in number theory and analysis. He will be known for the Gauss–Kuzmin distribution is a discrete probability distribution that arises as the limit probability distribution of the coefficients in the continued fraction expansion of a random variable uniformly distributed in (0, 1). Pic. | ||
||1897: Ronald George Wreyford Norrish born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1897: Ronald George Wreyford Norrish born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1904: Viktor Brack born ... German physician ... T4. Pic. | ||1904: Viktor Brack born ... German physician ... T4. Pic. | ||
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1885: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Hermann Weyl born. He will be one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century: his research will have major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines including number theory.
1920: Materials engineer and academic Philip G. Hodge born. He will study the mechanics of elastic and plastic behavior of materials, contributing to plasticity theory including developments in the method of characteristics, limit-analysis, piecewise linear isotropic plasticity, and nonlinear programming applications.
1922: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Imre Lakatos born. He will be known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development.
2005: The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2017: First use of Weyl semimetal crystals as a quantum time machine which detects and prevents crimes against mathematical constants.