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||1679: Jacques de Billy dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic: book cover. | ||1679: Jacques de Billy dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic: book cover. | ||
||1683: Gottfried Silbermann born ... instrument maker. Pic search | ||1683: Gottfried Silbermann born ... instrument maker. Pic search. | ||
||1684: Johann Matthias Hase born ... mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer. Pic. | ||1684: Johann Matthias Hase born ... mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer. Pic. | ||
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File:Mathew Brady 1875.jpg|link=Mathew Brady (nonfiction)|1875: Photographer, journalist, and crime-fighter [[Mathew Brady (nonfiction)|Mathew Brady]] demonstrates new type of [[scrying engine]] which detects [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Mathew Brady 1875.jpg|link=Mathew Brady (nonfiction)|1875: Photographer, journalist, and crime-fighter [[Mathew Brady (nonfiction)|Mathew Brady]] demonstrates new type of [[scrying engine]] which detects [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1885: Benjamin Silliman Jr. dies ... professor of chemistry at Yale University and instrumental in developing the oil industry. Pic. | |||
File:Hugo Steinhaus.jpg|link=Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|1887: Mathematician and academic [[Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|Hugo Steinhaus]] born. He will "discover" mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom he will make notable contributions to functional analysis, including the Banach–Steinhaus theorem. | File:Hugo Steinhaus.jpg|link=Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|1887: Mathematician and academic [[Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|Hugo Steinhaus]] born. He will "discover" mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom he will make notable contributions to functional analysis, including the Banach–Steinhaus theorem. | ||
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||1967: Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love. | ||1967: Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love. | ||
||1970: William Feller dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic search | ||1970: William Feller dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic search. | ||
||1973: Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history. | ||1973: Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history. | ||
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||2000: Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III dies ... mathematician, natural philosopher, and historian of science. Pic. | ||2000: Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III dies ... mathematician, natural philosopher, and historian of science. Pic. | ||
||2001: Burkhard Heim born ... physicist and academic. He devoted a large portion of his life to the pursuit of his unified field theory, Heim theory. Eventually he retreated into almost total seclusion, concentrating on developing and refining his theory of everything. Pic search | ||2001: Burkhard Heim born ... physicist and academic. He devoted a large portion of his life to the pursuit of his unified field theory, Heim theory. Eventually he retreated into almost total seclusion, concentrating on developing and refining his theory of everything. Pic search. | ||
||2008: Judah Folkman born ... physician and biologist. He researched tumor angiogenesis, the process by which a tumor attracts blood vessels to nourish itself and sustain its existence; his worke has led to the discovery of a number of therapies based on inhibiting or stimulating neovascularization. Pic search | ||2008: Judah Folkman born ... physician and biologist. He researched tumor angiogenesis, the process by which a tumor attracts blood vessels to nourish itself and sustain its existence; his worke has led to the discovery of a number of therapies based on inhibiting or stimulating neovascularization. Pic search. | ||
||2014: Milutin Dostanić dies ... mathematician and academic. He contributed to functional analysis and operator theory. Pic. | ||2014: Milutin Dostanić dies ... mathematician and academic. He contributed to functional analysis and operator theory. Pic. | ||
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1620: Statesman, scientist, and crime-fighter Paolo Sarpi discovers evidence which clears the name of fellow crime-fighter Galileo Galilei, who had been falsely accused of crimes against mathematical constants.
1867: Artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres dies. He assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.
1874: Scientist and inventor Johann Philipp Reis dies. He invented the Reis Telephone.
1875: Photographer, journalist, and crime-fighter Mathew Brady demonstrates new type of scrying engine which detects crimes against mathematical constants.
1887: Mathematician and academic Hugo Steinhaus born. He will "discover" mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom he will make notable contributions to functional analysis, including the Banach–Steinhaus theorem.
1898: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll dies. He wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.
1901: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred Tarski born. He will be a prolific author, contributing to model theory, metamathematics, algebraic logic, abstract algebra, topology, geometry, measure theory, mathematical logic, set theory, and analytic philosophy.
1901: Mathematician Charles Hermite dies. He did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra.
1939: Mathematician and crime-fighter Wilhelm Wirtinger publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on knot theory which quickly finds applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1978: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Kurt Gödel dies. His two incompleteness theorems had an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century.
2016: Green Spacecraft voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.