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||1909: Alexander Aigner born ... professor for mathematics ... during World War II he was part of a group of five mathematicians, which was recruited by the military cryptanalyst Wilhelm Fenner, and which included Ernst Witt, Georg Aumann, Oswald Teichmueller and Johann Friedrich Schultze, to form the backbone of the new mathematical research department in the late 1930s, which would eventually be called Section IVc of Cipher Department of the High Command of the Wehrmacht. Pic. | ||1909: Alexander Aigner born ... professor for mathematics ... during World War II he was part of a group of five mathematicians, which was recruited by the military cryptanalyst Wilhelm Fenner, and which included Ernst Witt, Georg Aumann, Oswald Teichmueller and Johann Friedrich Schultze, to form the backbone of the new mathematical research department in the late 1930s, which would eventually be called Section IVc of Cipher Department of the High Command of the Wehrmacht. Pic. | ||
||1917: John Nevil Maskelyne dies ... stage magician and inventor of the pay toilet, along with other Victorian-era devices. He worked with magicians George Alfred Cooke and David Devant, and many of his illusions are still performed today. His book Sharps and Flats: A Complete Revelation of the Secrets of Cheating at Games of Chance and Skill is considered a classic overview of card sharp practices, and in 1914 he founded the Occult Committee, a group whose remit was to "investigate claims to supernatural power and to expose fraud". Pic. | |||
1921: Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz born ... academic, mathematician, and civil engineer. Zienkiewicz was a pioneer of the finite element method, recognizing its value in areas outside of solid mechanics. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=olgierd+zienkiewicz | 1921: Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz born ... academic, mathematician, and civil engineer. Zienkiewicz was a pioneer of the finite element method, recognizing its value in areas outside of solid mechanics. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=olgierd+zienkiewicz | ||
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1048: Polymath, scholar, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet Omar Khayyám born. He wrote one of the most important treatises on algebra written before modern times, the Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra (1070), which includes a geometric method for solving cubic equations by intersecting a hyperbola with a circle. As an astronomer, he designed the Jalali calendar, a solar calendar with a very precise 33-year intercalation cycle.
1661: Mathematician William Oughtred uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect crimes against mathematical constants.
1711: Polymath Roger Joseph Boscovich born. He will be a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest.
1822: Photographer and journalist Mathew Brady born. He will be one of the first American photographers, best known for his scenes of the Civil War.
1850: Self-taught electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist Oliver Heaviside born. Heaviside will make major breakthroughs in the applied mathematics of electrical engineering; although he will be at odds with the scientific establishment for most of his life, Heaviside will change the face of telecommunications, mathematics, and science for years to come.
1871: Gem detective and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde accuses Niles Cartouchian of manufacturing illegal time crystals (nonfiction).
1872: Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic and political activist Bertrand Russell born.
1902: "Fightin'" Bert Russell defeats Baron Zersetzung with knockout punch in the third round of bare-knuckled boxing at the World Peace Conference.
1983: Newly discovered Gnomon algorithm functions prove that Soviet Air Defense office Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov is "completely unaware" of the upcoming 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident, according to a APTO emeritus Alice Beta.
2016: Cowries voted Image of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.