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||1996: Lars Valerian Ahlfors dies ... mathematician, remembered for his work in the field of Riemann surfaces and his text on complex analysis. Pic. | ||1996: Lars Valerian Ahlfors dies ... mathematician, remembered for his work in the field of Riemann surfaces and his text on complex analysis. Pic. | ||
File:Edwin_Henry_Spanier_(1986).jpg|link=Edwin Spanier (nonfiction)|1996: Mathematician and acadaemic Edwin Spanier dies. Spanier contributed to algebraic topology, co-inventing Spanier–Whitehead duality and Alexander–Spanier cohomology; he also wrote what was for a long time the standard textbook on algebraic topology | File:Edwin_Henry_Spanier_(1986).jpg|link=Edwin Spanier (nonfiction)|1996: Mathematician and acadaemic Edwin Spanier dies. Spanier contributed to algebraic topology, co-inventing Spanier–Whitehead duality and Alexander–Spanier cohomology; he also wrote what was for a long time the standard textbook on algebraic topology. | ||
||1996: Rolf Widerøe dies ... accelerator physicist who was the originator of many particle acceleration concepts, including the resonance accelerator and the betatron accelerator. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Rolf-Wider%C3%B8e | ||1996: Rolf Widerøe dies ... accelerator physicist who was the originator of many particle acceleration concepts, including the resonance accelerator and the betatron accelerator. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Rolf-Wider%C3%B8e | ||
||2001: The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection. | ||2001: The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection. | ||
File:Spiral Rings 2.jpg|link=Spiral Rings 2 (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Spiral Rings 2 (nonfiction)|Spiral Rings 2]]'' used in [[high-energy literature]] experiment unexpectedly develops [[Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|artificial intelligence]]. | File:Spiral Rings 2.jpg|link=Spiral Rings 2 (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Spiral Rings 2 (nonfiction)|Spiral Rings 2]]'' used in [[high-energy literature]] experiment unexpectedly develops [[Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|artificial intelligence]]. | ||
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1708: Mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus dies. He invented the Tschirnhaus transformation, by which certain intermediate terms are removed from a given algebraic equation.
1851: Famed gem detective and crime-fighter Niles Cartouchian (1900s) accuses rival gem detective Egon Rhodomunde of trafficking in illegal time crystals.
1889: Physicist and brewer James Prescott Joule dies. He studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work.
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1932: Mathematician Anne Penfold Street born. She will specialize in combinatorics, authoring several textbooks; her work on sum-free sets will become a standard reference for its subject matter.
1940: Mathematician and physicist Vito Volterra dies. He was one of the founders of functional analysis, making contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations.
1965: Documentary photography and photojournalist Dorothea Lange dies.
1996: Mathematician and acadaemic Edwin Spanier dies. Spanier contributed to algebraic topology, co-inventing Spanier–Whitehead duality and Alexander–Spanier cohomology; he also wrote what was for a long time the standard textbook on algebraic topology.
2016: Signed first edition of Spiral Rings 2 used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence.