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File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1667: Mathematician and physicist [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]] becomes a fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He had earned his bachelor's degree in 1665 and then spent two years at home in Lincolnshire inventing much of differential and integral calculus while Cambridge was closed due to plague. | File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1667: Mathematician and physicist [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]] becomes a fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He had earned his bachelor's degree in 1665 and then spent two years at home in Lincolnshire inventing much of differential and integral calculus while Cambridge was closed due to plague. | ||
||1745: Isaac Greenwood dies ... first Hollisian Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard College. During his tenure, he wrote anonymously the first natively-published American book on mathematics – the Greenwood Book, published in 1729. Pic search | ||1745: Isaac Greenwood dies ... first Hollisian Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard College. During his tenure, he wrote anonymously the first natively-published American book on mathematics – the Greenwood Book, published in 1729. Pic search. | ||
||1804: Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot dies ... engineer. | ||1804: Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot dies ... engineer. | ||
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||1901: Rudolph Koenig dies ... physicist and academic. He was a pioneer of acoustical physics and engineering; his Koenig sound analyzer revolutionized musical and scientific worlds by demonstrated visually that musical notes and voices were in fact made up of simple sounds. Pic. | ||1901: Rudolph Koenig dies ... physicist and academic. He was a pioneer of acoustical physics and engineering; his Koenig sound analyzer revolutionized musical and scientific worlds by demonstrated visually that musical notes and voices were in fact made up of simple sounds. Pic. | ||
||1901: Charles Stark Draper born ... scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation". He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentation Laboratory, later renamed the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, which made the Apollo Moon landings possible through the Apollo Guidance Computer it designed for NASA. Pic search | ||1901: Charles Stark Draper born ... scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation". He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentation Laboratory, later renamed the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, which made the Apollo Moon landings possible through the Apollo Guidance Computer it designed for NASA. Pic search. | ||
||1906: Willy | ||1906: Willy Ley born ... science writer, spaceflight advocate, and historian of science who helped to popularize rocketry, spaceflight, and natural history in both Germany and the United States. Pic. | ||
||1907: Alexander R. Todd born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1907: Alexander R. Todd born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
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File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1925: [[John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|John Logie Baird]] performs the first test of a working television system. | File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1925: [[John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|John Logie Baird]] performs the first test of a working television system. | ||
||1926: Michio Suzuki born ... mathematician who studied group theory. Pic search | ||1926: Michio Suzuki born ... mathematician who studied group theory. Pic search. | ||
||1927: Svante Arrhenius born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1927: Svante Arrhenius born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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||1977: Beniamino Segre dies ... mathematician who is remembered today as a major contributor to algebraic geometry and one of the founders of finite geometry. Pic. | ||1977: Beniamino Segre dies ... mathematician who is remembered today as a major contributor to algebraic geometry and one of the founders of finite geometry. Pic. | ||
||1990: Géza Ottlik dies ... mathematician and bridge theorist. His 1979 book ''Adventures in Card Play'', written with Hugh Kelsey, introduced and developed new concepts (such as Backwash squeeze and Entry-shifting squeeze). Pic search | ||1990: Géza Ottlik dies ... mathematician and bridge theorist. His 1979 book ''Adventures in Card Play'', written with Hugh Kelsey, introduced and developed new concepts (such as Backwash squeeze and Entry-shifting squeeze). Pic search. | ||
||1996: The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton. | ||1996: The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton. | ||
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1588: Philosopher and scientist Bernardino Telesio dies. While his natural theories were later disproven, his emphasis on observation influenced the emergence of the scientific method.
1667: Mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton becomes a fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He had earned his bachelor's degree in 1665 and then spent two years at home in Lincolnshire inventing much of differential and integral calculus while Cambridge was closed due to plague.
1853: Mathematician and politician François Arago born. He observed that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect now known as eddy current.
1890: Mathematician and crime-fighter Édouard Lucas translates the Fibonacci sequence into a series of Gnomon algorithm functions which will quickly find application in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1925: John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
1955: ENIAC retired. After disassembly, parts of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first general purpose electronic computer, were shipped to the Smithsonian for display.
1963: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter John Crank uses the Crank–Nicolson method to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2006: Mathematician and academic Paul Halmos dies. He made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces).
2007: Signed first edition of The Safe-Cracker provides clues which lead to the arrest and imprisonment of math criminals.
Two Bugs Fighting voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.