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||1716: Antoine Parent dies ... mathematician and theorist. No pic online. | ||1716: Antoine Parent dies ... mathematician and theorist. No pic online. | ||
||1731: Giovanni Francesco Giuseppe Malfatti, also known as Gian Francesco or Gianfrancesco born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||1731: Giovanni Francesco Giuseppe Malfatti, also known as Gian Francesco or Gianfrancesco born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
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||1766: Giulio Carlo, Count Fagnano, and Marquis de Toschi dies ... mathematician. He was probably the first to direct attention to the theory of elliptic integrals. Pic: book cover. | ||1766: Giulio Carlo, Count Fagnano, and Marquis de Toschi dies ... mathematician. He was probably the first to direct attention to the theory of elliptic integrals. Pic: book cover. | ||
||1775: John Adams writes to his wife to entreat her to teach his children geometry and... "I have seen the Utility of Geometry, Geography, and the Art of drawing so much of late, that I must intreat you, my dear, to teach the Elements of those Sciences to my little Girl and Boys." Pic. | ||1775: John Adams writes to his wife to entreat her to teach his children geometry and... "I have seen the Utility of Geometry, Geography, and the Art of drawing so much of late, that I must intreat you, my dear, to teach the Elements of those Sciences to my little Girl and Boys." Pic. | ||
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||1976: Leopold Ružička dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1976: Leopold Ružička dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
File:Pál Turán.jpg|link=Pál Turán (nonfiction)|1976: Mathematician [[Pál Turán (nonfiction)|Pál Turán]] dies. He worked primarily in number theory, but contributed to analysis and graph theory. | File:Pál Turán.jpg|link=Pál Turán (nonfiction)|1976: Mathematician [[Pál Turán (nonfiction)|Pál Turán]] dies. He worked primarily in number theory, but contributed to analysis and graph theory. | ||
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||2014: Gerald Neugebauer dies ... astronomer and physicist, pioneering work in infrared astronomy. Pic uploaded. | ||2014: Gerald Neugebauer dies ... astronomer and physicist, pioneering work in infrared astronomy. Pic uploaded. | ||
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1687: The Parthenon is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who are besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.
1868: Mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius dies. He discovered the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space.
1905: Albert Einstein publishes his first paper on the special theory of relativity.
1976: Mathematician Pál Turán dies. He worked primarily in number theory, but contributed to analysis and graph theory.