Template:Selected anniversaries/December 10: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 5: | Line 5: | ||
File:Statue of Ibn Rushd in Cordoba.jpg|link=Ibn Rushd (nonfiction)|1198: Polymath [[Ibn Rushd (nonfiction)|Ibn Rushd]] (Averoess) dies. He wrote on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, political and Andalusian classical music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics. | File:Statue of Ibn Rushd in Cordoba.jpg|link=Ibn Rushd (nonfiction)|1198: Polymath [[Ibn Rushd (nonfiction)|Ibn Rushd]] (Averoess) dies. He wrote on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, political and Andalusian classical music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics. | ||
File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1452: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] born. | File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1452: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] born. | ||
| Line 30: | Line 28: | ||
||1851: Karl Freiherr von Drais born ... forest official and significant inventor in the Biedermeier period. Dandy horse. Pic. | ||1851: Karl Freiherr von Drais born ... forest official and significant inventor in the Biedermeier period. Dandy horse. Pic. | ||
||1860: Margaret Eliza Maltby born . | File:Margaret Eliza Maltby circa 1908.jpg|link=Margaret Eliza Maltby (nonfiction)|1860: Physicist [[Margaret Eliza Maltby (nonfiction)|Margaret Eliza Maltby]] born. She will contribute to the measurement of high electrolytic resistances and conductivity of very dilute solutions. Pic. | ||
||1864: Henry Schoolcraft dies ... geographer, geologist, and ethnologist ... Native Americans. Pic. | ||1864: Henry Schoolcraft dies ... geographer, geologist, and ethnologist ... Native Americans. Pic. | ||
| Line 76: | Line 74: | ||
||2011: Ernst Paul Specker dies ... mathematician. Much of his most influential work was on Quine’s New Foundations, a set theory with a universal set, but he is most famous for the Kochen–Specker theorem in quantum mechanics, showing that certain types of hidden variable theories are impossible. Pic. | ||2011: Ernst Paul Specker dies ... mathematician. Much of his most influential work was on Quine’s New Foundations, a set theory with a universal set, but he is most famous for the Kochen–Specker theorem in quantum mechanics, showing that certain types of hidden variable theories are impossible. Pic. | ||
File:The Eel receives news from informants.jpg|link=The Eel's henchmen|2014: The Eel receives [[The Eel's henchmen|news from informants]]. | |File:The Eel receives news from informants.jpg|link=The Eel's henchmen|2014: The Eel receives [[The Eel's henchmen|news from informants]]. | ||
File:Shell.jpg|link=Shell (nonfiction)|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Shell (nonfiction)|Shell]]'' stolen from the New MIA in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] by agents of the criminal mathematical function [[Gnotilus]]. | File:Shell.jpg|link=Shell (nonfiction)|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Shell (nonfiction)|Shell]]'' stolen from the New MIA in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] by agents of the criminal mathematical function [[Gnotilus]]. | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
Revision as of 18:21, 10 December 2019
1262: First known use of Yui's triangle to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1198: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) dies. He wrote on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, political and Andalusian classical music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics.
1452: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor Johannes Stöffler born.
1684: Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.
1804: Mathematician and academic Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi born. He will make fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.
1815: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace born. She will do pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
1831: Physicist and academic Thomas Johann Seebeck dies. He discovered the thermoelectric effect.
1860: Physicist Margaret Eliza Maltby born. She will contribute to the measurement of high electrolytic resistances and conductivity of very dilute solutions. Pic.
1959: Chrome Plover, the famous musical electroplating ensemble, demonstrates new controller units.
1967: Project Gasbuggy underground nuclear test detonation in rural northern New Mexico. Its purpose was to determine if nuclear explosions could be useful in fracturing rock formations for natural gas extraction.
1989: Animated Lorenz system diagram celebrates the life and work of Ada Lovelace.
2017: Signed first edition of Shell stolen from the New MIA in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the criminal mathematical function Gnotilus.