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'''Calendrical pareidolia''' is the phenomenon of responding to a calendar-based stimulus by [[Pareidolia (nonfiction)|perceiving a familiar pattern where none exists]] (pareidolia): | |||
Calendrical stimuli include events such as births and deaths, occurring on the same day in the calendar but otherwise evidencing no causal relationship — and yet of interest. | |||
This article was originally titled ''Calendrical coincidences''. | |||
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File:Hugo Steinhaus.jpg|link=Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|1887: Mathematician and academic [[Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|Hugo Steinhaus]] born. He will "discover" mathematician Stefan Banach. Banach and Alfred Tarski will famously co-author a 1924 paper, "Sur la décomposition des ensembles de points en parties respectivement congruentes", setting out the Banach–Tarski paradox. | |||
File:Alfred Tarski 1968.jpg|link=Alfred Tarski (nonfiction)|1901: Mathematician and philosopher [[Alfred Tarski (nonfiction)|Alfred Tarski]] born. He and Stefan Banach will famously co-author a 1924 paper, "Sur la décomposition des ensembles de points en parties respectivement congruentes", setting out the Banach–Tarski paradox. | |||
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File:Johannes Schöner.jpg|link=Johannes Schöner (nonfiction)|1477: [[Johannes Schöner (nonfiction)|Johannes Schöner]] born. He will enjoy a European wide reputation as an innovative and influential globe maker and cosmographer and as one of the continent's leading and most authoritative astrologers. | |||
File:Johannes Schöner.jpg|link=Johannes Schöner (nonfiction)|1547: [[Johannes Schöner (nonfiction)|Johannes Schöner]] dies. He enjoyed a European wide reputation as an innovative and influential globe maker and cosmographer and as one of the continent's leading and most authoritative astrologers. | |||
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File:Calendrical Pareidolia (24 May) - Daniel Fahrenheit born (1686) - Georg Ernst Stahl dies (1734).png|1686: Physicist and engineer '''[[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (nonfiction)|Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]]''' born. He will help lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.<br><br>1734: Chemist and physician '''[[Georg Ernst Stahl (nonfiction)|Georg Ernst Stahl]]''' dies. His works on phlogiston continue to be accepted as an explanation for chemical processes until the late 18th century.]] | |||
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File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1907: Mathematician and adacemic [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] receives her Ph.D. degree, ''summa cum laude'', from the University of Erlangen, for a dissertation on algebraic invariants directed by Paul Gordan. | |||
File:Max_Noether_(between_1870_and_1875).jpg|link=Max Noether (nonfiction)|1921: Mathematician [[Max Noether (nonfiction)|Max Noether]] dies. Noether contributed to algebraic geometry and the theory of algebraic functions. He was the father of mathematician Emmy Noether. | |||
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* [[Pareidolia (nonfiction)]] - a psychological phenomenon in which the mind responds to a stimulus, usually an image or a sound, by perceiving a familiar pattern where none exists (e.g., in random data). Common examples are perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations, the Man in the Moon, the Moon rabbit, hidden messages within recorded music played in reverse or at higher- or lower-than-normal speeds, and hearing indistinct voices in random noise such as that produced by air conditioners or fans. | |||
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Latest revision as of 15:01, 24 November 2021
Calendrical pareidolia is the phenomenon of responding to a calendar-based stimulus by perceiving a familiar pattern where none exists (pareidolia):
Calendrical stimuli include events such as births and deaths, occurring on the same day in the calendar but otherwise evidencing no causal relationship — and yet of interest.
This article was originally titled Calendrical coincidences.
Calendar
January
January 14
1887: Mathematician and academic Hugo Steinhaus born. He will "discover" mathematician Stefan Banach. Banach and Alfred Tarski will famously co-author a 1924 paper, "Sur la décomposition des ensembles de points en parties respectivement congruentes", setting out the Banach–Tarski paradox.
1901: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred Tarski born. He and Stefan Banach will famously co-author a 1924 paper, "Sur la décomposition des ensembles de points en parties respectivement congruentes", setting out the Banach–Tarski paradox.
January 16
1477: Johannes Schöner born. He will enjoy a European wide reputation as an innovative and influential globe maker and cosmographer and as one of the continent's leading and most authoritative astrologers.
1547: Johannes Schöner dies. He enjoyed a European wide reputation as an innovative and influential globe maker and cosmographer and as one of the continent's leading and most authoritative astrologers.
March
March 12
TO_DO: Tonelli
May
May 24
1686: Physicist and engineer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit born. He will help lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.
1734: Chemist and physician Georg Ernst Stahl dies. His works on phlogiston continue to be accepted as an explanation for chemical processes until the late 18th century.]]
June
June 24
1880: Mathematician and academic Oswald Veblen born. His work will find application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity. Veblen will publish a paper (1912) on the Four color conjecture.
2008: Mathematician and academic Gerhard Ringel dies. Ringel was a pioneer of graph theory and contributed significantly to the proof of the Heawood conjecture (now the Ringel-Youngs theorem), a mathematical problem closely linked with the Four color theorem.
July
July 16
1945: World War II: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island. See Manhattan Project.
1945: Trinity nuclear weapon test: the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico. See Manhattan Project.
1988: Nuclear physicist Herbert L. Anderson dies. Anderson contributed to the Manhattan Project: he was a member of the team which made the first demonstration of nuclear fission in the United States, in the basement of Pupin Hall at Columbia University, and he participated in the first atomic bomb test, code-named Trinity.
December
December 13
1907: Mathematician and adacemic Emmy Noether receives her Ph.D. degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Erlangen, for a dissertation on algebraic invariants directed by Paul Gordan.
1921: Mathematician Max Noether dies. Noether contributed to algebraic geometry and the theory of algebraic functions. He was the father of mathematician Emmy Noether.
Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
- Days of the year (nonfiction)
- Pareidolia (nonfiction) - a psychological phenomenon in which the mind responds to a stimulus, usually an image or a sound, by perceiving a familiar pattern where none exists (e.g., in random data). Common examples are perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations, the Man in the Moon, the Moon rabbit, hidden messages within recorded music played in reverse or at higher- or lower-than-normal speeds, and hearing indistinct voices in random noise such as that produced by air conditioners or fans.