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||1897: Stanisław Saks born ... mathematician and university tutor, a member of the Lwów School of Mathematics, known primarily for his membership in the Scottish Café circle, an extensive monograph on the theory of integrals, his works on measure theory and the Vitali–Hahn–Saks theorem. Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Stanis%C5%82aw-Saks/6000000014876185057 | ||1897: Stanisław Saks born ... mathematician and university tutor, a member of the Lwów School of Mathematics, known primarily for his membership in the Scottish Café circle, an extensive monograph on the theory of integrals, his works on measure theory and the Vitali–Hahn–Saks theorem. Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Stanis%C5%82aw-Saks/6000000014876185057 | ||
||1903: Hermann Oestrich born ... engineer. He was involved in the development of jet engines as an employee of BMW and later of SNECMA. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Hermann+Oestrich | |||
||1905: Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell. | ||1905: Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell. | ||
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1563: Mathematician, fencer, and APTO field engineer Ludolph van Ceulen publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1842: Osman Hamdi Bey born. He will be an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.
1892: Mathematician Pekka Myrberg born. He will do fundamental work on the iteration of rational functions (especially quadratic functions), developing the concept of period-doubling. Myrberg's research will revive interest in the results of Gaston Julia and Pierre Fatou.
1916: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin dies.
1947: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead dies. He was a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.
1947: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren dies. He was one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.
1954: Tunguska Event Preservation Society pledge drive day.
1963: Field Report Number One by Vandal Savage Press wins Pulitzer Award.
2013: Mathematician and academic Paul Sally dies. He was known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago".
2016: Eye Foot is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.