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File:Emanuel Swedenborg.png|link=Emanuel Swedenborg (nonfiction)|1772: Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, and mystic [[Emanuel Swedenborg (nonfiction)|Emanuel Swedenborg]] dies.
File:Emanuel Swedenborg.png|link=Emanuel Swedenborg (nonfiction)|1772: Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, and mystic [[Emanuel Swedenborg (nonfiction)|Emanuel Swedenborg]] dies.
File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1773: Physicist and academic [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to predict and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Jørgen Jørgensen (Eckersberg).jpg|link=Jørgen Jørgensen (nonfiction)|1780: Adventurer [[Jørgen Jørgensen (nonfiction)|Jørgen Jørgensen]] born. He will sail to Iceland, declaring the country independent from Denmark and pronouncing himself its ruler, intending to found a new republic following the United States of America and France.
File:Jørgen Jørgensen (Eckersberg).jpg|link=Jørgen Jørgensen (nonfiction)|1780: Adventurer [[Jørgen Jørgensen (nonfiction)|Jørgen Jørgensen]] born. He will sail to Iceland, declaring the country independent from Denmark and pronouncing himself its ruler, intending to found a new republic following the United States of America and France.
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File:Niles Cartouchian 2.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|1872: Mathematician, crime-fighter, and alleged time-traveller [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|Niles Cartouchian]] uses [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals (nonfiction)]] to track down and delete the criminal artificial intelligence [[Killer Poke]].
File:Niles Cartouchian 2.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|1872: Mathematician, crime-fighter, and alleged time-traveller [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|Niles Cartouchian]] uses [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals (nonfiction)]] to track down and delete the criminal artificial intelligence [[Killer Poke]].


File:Tullio Levi-civita.jpg|link=Tullio Levi-Civita (nonfiction)|1873: Mathematician and academic [[Tullio Levi-Civita (nonfiction)|Tullio Levi-Civita]] born. He will gain fame for his work on absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) and its applications to the theory of relativity, and make significant contributions in other areas.
File:Tullio Levi-civita.jpg|link=Tullio Levi-Civita (nonfiction)|1873: Mathematician and academic [[Tullio Levi-Civita (nonfiction)|Tullio Levi-Civita]] born. Levi-Civita will gain fame for his work on absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) and its applications to the theory of relativity, and make significant contributions in other areas.


File:Francesco Zantedeschi.jpg|link=Francesco Zantedeschi (nonfiction)|1873: Physicist and priest [[Francesco Zantedeschi (nonfiction)|Francesco Zantedeschi]] dies. Zantedeschi was among the first to recognize the marked absorption by the atmosphere of red, yellow, and green light. He also thought that he had detected, in 1838, a magnetic action on steel needles by ultraviolet light, anticipating later discoveries connecting light and magnetism.
File:Francesco Zantedeschi.jpg|link=Francesco Zantedeschi (nonfiction)|1873: Physicist and priest [[Francesco Zantedeschi (nonfiction)|Francesco Zantedeschi]] dies. Zantedeschi was among the first to recognize the marked absorption by the atmosphere of red, yellow, and green light. He also thought that he had detected, in 1838, a magnetic action on steel needles by ultraviolet light, anticipating later discoveries connecting light and magnetism.
File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1874: Mystic, faith healer, and alleged time-traveller [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] accused of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1888: Enea Bossi, Sr. born ... engineer, designed the Budd BB-1 Pioneer and Bossi-Bonomi Pedaliante. Pic.
||1888: Enea Bossi, Sr. born ... engineer, designed the Budd BB-1 Pioneer and Bossi-Bonomi Pedaliante. Pic.


||1888: Eduard Rüchardt born ... physicist. In modern times Rüchardt is mainly noted for the experiment named after him. However, Rüchardt's chief topic was the study of canal rays. Pic search maybe: https://www.google.com/search?q=Eduard+Rüchardt
||1888: Eduard Rüchardt born ... physicist. In modern times Rüchardt is mainly noted for the experiment named after him. However, Rüchardt's chief topic was the study of canal rays. Pic search.


||1889: Philip Van Horn Weems born ... United States Navy officer, inventor of navigational instruments and methods, including the Weems Plotter and the Second Setting Watch, and author of navigational textbooks. Star Altitude Curves. Pic: https://timeandnavigation.si.edu/multimedia-asset/philip-van-horn-weems-0
||1889: Philip Van Horn Weems born ... United States Navy officer, inventor of navigational instruments and methods, including the Weems Plotter and the Second Setting Watch, and author of navigational textbooks. Star Altitude Curves. Pic: https://timeandnavigation.si.edu/multimedia-asset/philip-van-horn-weems-0
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||1895: Ernst Jünger born ... philosopher and author ... highly-decorated German soldier, author, and entomologist who became publicly known for his World War I memoir Storm of Steel. Pic.
||1895: Ernst Jünger born ... philosopher and author ... highly-decorated German soldier, author, and entomologist who became publicly known for his World War I memoir Storm of Steel. Pic.


File:Wilhelm Ackermann.jpg|link=Wilhelm Ackermann (nonfiction)|1896: Mathematician [[Wilhelm Ackermann (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Ackermann]] born.  He will discover the Ackermann function, an important example in the theory of computation.
File:Wilhelm Ackermann.jpg|link=Wilhelm Ackermann (nonfiction)|1896: Mathematician [[Wilhelm Ackermann (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Ackermann]] born.  Ackermann will discover the Ackermann function, an important example in the theory of computation.


||1912: Martin Maximilian Emil Eichler born ... number theorist. Eichler and Goro Shimura developed a method to construct elliptic curves from certain modular forms. The converse notion that every elliptic curve has a corresponding modular form would later be the key to the proof of Fermat's last theorem. Pic.
||1912: Martin Maximilian Emil Eichler born ... number theorist. Eichler and Goro Shimura developed a method to construct elliptic curves from certain modular forms. The converse notion that every elliptic curve has a corresponding modular form would later be the key to the proof of Fermat's last theorem. Pic.

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  • 1548: Mathematician and APTO field engineer Adam Ries publishes his groundbreaking textbook, which promotes the advantages of Arabic/Indian numerals over Roman numerals in a wide range of Gnomon algorithm applications, notably the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1548: Mathematician and APTO field engineer Adam Ries publishes his groundbreaking textbook, which promotes the advantages of Arabic/Indian numerals over Roman numerals in a wide range of Gnomon algorithm applications, notably the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1772: Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg dies.

    1772: Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg dies.

  • 1780: Adventurer Jørgen Jørgensen born. He will sail to Iceland, declaring the country independent from Denmark and pronouncing himself its ruler, intending to found a new republic following the United States of America and France.

    1780: Adventurer Jørgen Jørgensen born. He will sail to Iceland, declaring the country independent from Denmark and pronouncing himself its ruler, intending to found a new republic following the United States of America and France.

  • 1872: Mathematician, crime-fighter, and alleged time-traveller Niles Cartouchian uses time crystals (nonfiction) to track down and delete the criminal artificial intelligence Killer Poke.

    1872: Mathematician, crime-fighter, and alleged time-traveller Niles Cartouchian uses time crystals (nonfiction) to track down and delete the criminal artificial intelligence Killer Poke.

  • 1873: Mathematician and academic Tullio Levi-Civita born. Levi-Civita will gain fame for his work on absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) and its applications to the theory of relativity, and make significant contributions in other areas.

    1873: Mathematician and academic Tullio Levi-Civita born. Levi-Civita will gain fame for his work on absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) and its applications to the theory of relativity, and make significant contributions in other areas.

  • 1873: Physicist and priest Francesco Zantedeschi dies. Zantedeschi was among the first to recognize the marked absorption by the atmosphere of red, yellow, and green light. He also thought that he had detected, in 1838, a magnetic action on steel needles by ultraviolet light, anticipating later discoveries connecting light and magnetism.

    1873: Physicist and priest Francesco Zantedeschi dies. Zantedeschi was among the first to recognize the marked absorption by the atmosphere of red, yellow, and green light. He also thought that he had detected, in 1838, a magnetic action on steel needles by ultraviolet light, anticipating later discoveries connecting light and magnetism.

  • 1896: Mathematician Wilhelm Ackermann born. Ackermann will discover the Ackermann function, an important example in the theory of computation.

    1896: Mathematician Wilhelm Ackermann born. Ackermann will discover the Ackermann function, an important example in the theory of computation.

  • 1944: Mathematician Grace Chisholm Young dies. Young contributed measurable functions to the Denjoy–Young–Saks theorem, which gives some possibilities for the Dini derivatives of a function that hold almost everywhere.

    1944: Mathematician Grace Chisholm Young dies. Young contributed measurable functions to the Denjoy–Young–Saks theorem, which gives some possibilities for the Dini derivatives of a function that hold almost everywhere.

  • 1952: Actor-cryptographer Niles Cartouchian premiers new short film about the Halting problem. Seen by few at first, it will gain fame over time, influencing a generation of mathematical crime-fighters.

    1952: Actor-cryptographer Niles Cartouchian premiers new short film about the Halting problem. Seen by few at first, it will gain fame over time, influencing a generation of mathematical crime-fighters.

  • 1974: NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury.

    1974: NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury.

  • 1975: Mathematician, physicist, and APTO field engineer John Lighton Synge visits the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada, where he gives an impromptu lecture on his geometric approach to the general theory of relativity.

    1975: Mathematician, physicist, and APTO field engineer John Lighton Synge visits the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada, where he gives an impromptu lecture on his geometric approach to the general theory of relativity.

  • 2016: Steganographic analysis of Stardust unexpectedly reveals "about eight hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.

    2016: Steganographic analysis of Stardust unexpectedly reveals "about eight hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.

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