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||1853: François Arago dies ... mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and politician, 25th Prime Minister of France. | ||1853: François Arago dies ... mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and politician, 25th Prime Minister of France. | ||
||1854: Patrick Geddes born ... biologist, sociologist, geographer, and philanthropist | ||1854: Patrick Geddes born ... biologist, sociologist, geographer, and philanthropist. | ||
File:François Arago.jpg|link=François Arago (nonfiction)|1853: Mathematician and politician [[François Arago (nonfiction)|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. | File:François Arago.jpg|link=François Arago (nonfiction)|1853: Mathematician and politician [[François Arago (nonfiction)|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. | ||
||1883: Karl von Terzaghi born ... geologist and engineer. | ||1883: Karl von Terzaghi born ... geologist and engineer. | ||
||1886: Astronomer Robert Julius Trumpler born. He will observe that the brightness of the more distant open clusters is lower than expected, and the stars appear more red, a phenomenon caused by interstellar dust absorbing interstellar light. | |||
File:Édouard Lucas.png|link=Édouard Lucas (nonfiction)|1890: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Édouard Lucas (nonfiction)|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]]. | File:Édouard Lucas.png|link=Édouard Lucas (nonfiction)|1890: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Édouard Lucas (nonfiction)|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]]. | ||
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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.