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||1825: The Blessed Francesco Faà di Bruno born ... priest and advocate of the poor, a leading mathematician of his era and a noted religious musician. In 1988 he was beatified by Pope John Paul II. He is the eponym of Faà di Bruno's formula. Pic. | ||1825: The Blessed Francesco Faà di Bruno born ... priest and advocate of the poor, a leading mathematician of his era and a noted religious musician. In 1988 he was beatified by Pope John Paul II. He is the eponym of Faà di Bruno's formula. Pic. | ||
||1840: Désiré André dies ... mathematician, best known for his work on Catalan numbers and alternating permutations. Pic search | ||1840: Désiré André dies ... mathematician, best known for his work on Catalan numbers and alternating permutations. Pic search. | ||
||1806: John Thomas Graves born ... jurist and mathematician. He was a friend of William Rowan Hamilton, and is credited both with inspiring Hamilton to discover the quaternions and with personally discovering the octonions, which he called the octaves. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_T_Graves.jpg | ||1806: John Thomas Graves born ... jurist and mathematician. He was a friend of William Rowan Hamilton, and is credited both with inspiring Hamilton to discover the quaternions and with personally discovering the octonions, which he called the octaves. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_T_Graves.jpg | ||
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||1912: Hanna Reitsch born ... soldier and pilot. Pic. | ||1912: Hanna Reitsch born ... soldier and pilot. Pic. | ||
||1915: Leonard Isaac Schiff dies ... physicist best known for his book ''Quantum Mechanics''. Pic search | ||1915: Leonard Isaac Schiff dies ... physicist best known for his book ''Quantum Mechanics''. Pic search. | ||
||1918: Lê Văn Thiêm born ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||1918: Lê Văn Thiêm born ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
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||1940: Charles E. M. Pearce born ... mathematician and academic. He will contribute to probabilistic and statistical modelling and analysis; his applied interests will include queuing theory, road traffic, telecommunications, and urban planning. Pic. | ||1940: Charles E. M. Pearce born ... mathematician and academic. He will contribute to probabilistic and statistical modelling and analysis; his applied interests will include queuing theory, road traffic, telecommunications, and urban planning. Pic. | ||
||1941: James Stewart born ... mathematician and academic. Stewart's research focused on harmonic and functional analysis. Pic search | ||1941: James Stewart born ... mathematician and academic. Stewart's research focused on harmonic and functional analysis. Pic search. | ||
File:Grace Chisholm Young.jpg|link=Grace Chisholm Young (nonfiction)|1944: Mathematician [[Grace Chisholm Young (nonfiction)|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. | File:Grace Chisholm Young.jpg|link=Grace Chisholm Young (nonfiction)|1944: Mathematician [[Grace Chisholm Young (nonfiction)|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. | ||
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||1996: Gordon Pask dies ... author, inventor, educational theorist, cybernetician and psychologist who made significant contributions to cybernetics, instructional psychology, experimental epistemology and educational technology. Pic. | ||1996: Gordon Pask dies ... author, inventor, educational theorist, cybernetician and psychologist who made significant contributions to cybernetics, instructional psychology, experimental epistemology and educational technology. Pic. | ||
||2003: Carlo Urbani dies . | File:Carlo_Urbani.jpg|link=Carlo Urbani (nonfiction)|2003: Physician and microbiologist [[Carlo Urbani (nonfiction)|Carlo Urbani]] dies of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Urbani identifed SARS as a new and dangerously contagious viral disease, and his early warning to the World Health Organization (WHO) triggered a swift and global response credited with saving numerous lives. | ||
||2017: Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov dies ... theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. He was the co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, with Vitaly Ginzburg and Anthony James Leggett, for theories about how matter can behave at extremely low temperatures. Pic. | ||2017: Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov dies ... theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. He was the co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, with Vitaly Ginzburg and Anthony James Leggett, for theories about how matter can behave at extremely low temperatures. 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.
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.
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: 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.
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.
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.
2003: Physician and microbiologist Carlo Urbani dies of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Urbani identifed SARS as a new and dangerously contagious viral disease, and his early warning to the World Health Organization (WHO) triggered a swift and global response credited with saving numerous lives.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Stardust unexpectedly reveals "about eight hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.