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||1904: Nikolaus Hofreiter born ... mathematician who worked mainly in number theory. Pic: http://geschichte.univie.ac.at/de/node/33601 | ||1904: Nikolaus Hofreiter born ... mathematician who worked mainly in number theory. Pic: http://geschichte.univie.ac.at/de/node/33601 | ||
||1905: Karol Borsuk born ... mathematician. His main interest was topology. Borsuk introduced the theory of absolute retracts (ARs) and absolute neighborhood retracts (ANRs), and the cohomotopy groups, later called Borsuk–Spanier cohomotopy groups. He also founded Shape theory. He has constructed various beautiful examples of topological spaces, e.g. an acyclic, 3-dimensional continuum which admits a fixed point free homeomorphism onto itself; also 2-dimensional, contractible polyhedra which have no free edge. His topological and geometric conjectures and themes stimulated research for more than half a century. | ||1905: Karol Borsuk born ... mathematician. His main interest was topology. Borsuk introduced the theory of absolute retracts (ARs) and absolute neighborhood retracts (ANRs), and the cohomotopy groups, later called Borsuk–Spanier cohomotopy groups. He also founded Shape theory. He has constructed various beautiful examples of topological spaces, e.g. an acyclic, 3-dimensional continuum which admits a fixed point free homeomorphism onto itself; also 2-dimensional, contractible polyhedra which have no free edge. His topological and geometric conjectures and themes stimulated research for more than half a century. Pic. | ||
||1920: Saul Bass born ... graphic designer and director. | ||1920: Saul Bass born ... graphic designer and director. Pic. | ||
||1932: Heinz-Dieter Zeh born ... a professor (later professor emeritus) of the University of Heidelberg and theoretical physicist. He was one of the developers of the many-minds interpretation of quantum mechanics and the discoverer of decoherence, first described in his seminal 1970 paper. Pic: https://scilogs.spektrum.de/das-zauberwort/der-alte-mann-und-das-multiversum-ein-nachruf-auf-h-dieter-zeh/ | ||1932: Heinz-Dieter Zeh born ... a professor (later professor emeritus) of the University of Heidelberg and theoretical physicist. He was one of the developers of the many-minds interpretation of quantum mechanics and the discoverer of decoherence, first described in his seminal 1970 paper. Pic: https://scilogs.spektrum.de/das-zauberwort/der-alte-mann-und-das-multiversum-ein-nachruf-auf-h-dieter-zeh/ | ||
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1788: Physician, geologist, and botanist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli dies. He has been called the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire".
1794: Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale, is tried, convicted and guillotined in one day in Paris.
1872: Adventurer Wallace War-Heels defeats alleged criminal mastermind Baron Zersetzung in single combat.
1873: Economist, civil servant, and philosopher John Stuart Mill dies. He was one of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, and the first Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage.
1959: Mathematician Renato Caccioppoli takes his own life. Caccioppoli contributed to mathematical analysis, including the theory of functions of several complex variables, functional analysis, and measure theory.
1960: Mathematician and academic J. H. C. Whitehead dies. During the Second World War, he worked with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.
2016: Signed first edition of Violet Spiral 2 stolen from the Walker Art Center in New Minneapolis, Canada by the Forbidden Ratio gang.