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File:Montmort - Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard, 1713.jpg|link=Pierre Raymond de Montmort (nonfiction)|1678: Mathematician [[Pierre Raymond de Montmort (nonfiction)|Pierre Raymond de Montmort]] born. He will write ''Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard'', an influential book about probability and games of chance which will introduce the combinatorial study of [[Derangement (nonfiction)|derangements]]. | File:Montmort - Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard, 1713.jpg|link=Pierre Raymond de Montmort (nonfiction)|1678: Mathematician [[Pierre Raymond de Montmort (nonfiction)|Pierre Raymond de Montmort]] born. He will write ''Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard'', an influential book about probability and games of chance which will introduce the combinatorial study of [[Derangement (nonfiction)|derangements]]. | ||
||1798: Heinrich | ||1798: Heinrich Scherk born ... mathematician notable for his work on minimal surfaces and the distribution of prime numbers. Pic. | ||
||1811: Isaac Singer born ... inventor, actor, and businessman. He made important improvements in the design of the sewing machine and was the founder of what became one of the first American multi-national businesses, the Singer Sewing Machine Company. Pic. | |||
File:Golding Bird.jpg|link=Golding Bird (nonfiction)|1854: Physician [[Golding Bird (nonfiction)|Golding Bird]] dies. He pioneered the medical use of electricity. | File:Golding Bird.jpg|link=Golding Bird (nonfiction)|1854: Physician [[Golding Bird (nonfiction)|Golding Bird]] dies. He pioneered the medical use of electricity. | ||
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||1865: Ernest William Hobson born ... mathematician, now remembered mostly for his books, some of which broke new ground in their coverage in English of topics from mathematical analysis. G. H. Hardy wrote, "Although he lived to be 76, he was active almost up to his death; his last book (and perhaps in some ways his best) was published when he was 74. He was a singular exception to the general rule that good mathematicians do their best work when they are young." Pic. | ||1865: Ernest William Hobson born ... mathematician, now remembered mostly for his books, some of which broke new ground in their coverage in English of topics from mathematical analysis. G. H. Hardy wrote, "Although he lived to be 76, he was active almost up to his death; his last book (and perhaps in some ways his best) was published when he was 74. He was a singular exception to the general rule that good mathematicians do their best work when they are young." Pic. | ||
||1883: Louis François Clément Breguet dies ... physicist and watchmaker, noted for his work in the early days of telegraphy. | ||1883: Louis François Clément Breguet dies ... physicist and watchmaker, noted for his work in the early days of telegraphy. Pic. | ||
||1890: Olive Clio Hazlett born ... mathematician who spent most of her career working for the University of Illinois. She mainly researched algebra, and wrote seventeen research papers on subjects such as nilpotent algebras, division algebras, modular invariants, and the arithmetic of algebras. WW2 Cryptanalyst. Pic | ||1890: Olive Clio Hazlett born ... mathematician who spent most of her career working for the University of Illinois. She mainly researched algebra, and wrote seventeen research papers on subjects such as nilpotent algebras, division algebras, modular invariants, and the arithmetic of algebras. WW2 Cryptanalyst. Pic search. | ||
||1894: Sir John | ||1894: Sir John Lennard-Jones born ... mathematician who was a professor of theoretical physics at University of Bristol, and then of theoretical science at the University of Cambridge. He may be regarded as the initiator of modern computational chemistry. Pic. | ||
||1902: SS Ventnor sinks off New Zealand, leading to the deaths of 13 crew and the loss of 499 bodies of gold miners which were being repatriated to southern China. This led to the end of the practice of exhuming and returning human remains, en masse, to China from New Zealand. Pics. | |||
||1904: The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world. | ||1904: The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world. | ||
||1905: Henry Berthold Mann born ... professor of mathematics and statistics at Ohio State University. Mann proved the Schnirelmann-Landau conjecture in number theory. Pic | ||1905: Henry Berthold Mann born ... professor of mathematics and statistics at Ohio State University. Mann proved the Schnirelmann-Landau conjecture in number theory. Pic search. | ||
||1910: Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau born ... chemical engineer - pencillin factory. | ||1910: Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau born ... chemical engineer - pencillin factory. Pic. | ||
||1915: Robert Alexander Rankin born ... mathematician who worked in analytic number theory. Pic | ||1915: Robert Alexander Rankin born ... mathematician who worked in analytic number theory. Pic search. | ||
||1921: José Ádem born ... mathematician who worked in algebraic topology, and proved the Ádem relations between Steenrod squares. Pic. | ||1921: José Ádem born ... mathematician who worked in algebraic topology, and proved the Ádem relations between Steenrod squares. Pic. | ||
||1927: Mikhail Mikhailovich Postnikov born ... mathematician, known for his work in algebraic and differential topology. Pic | ||1927: Mikhail Mikhailovich Postnikov born ... mathematician, known for his work in algebraic and differential topology. Pic search. | ||
||1930: Ellen Hayes dies ... mathematician and astronomer. | ||1930: Ellen Hayes dies ... mathematician and astronomer. Pic. | ||
||1930: Ratifications exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty, signed in April modifying the 1925 Washington Naval Treaty and the arms limitation treaty's modified provisions, go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories. | ||1930: Ratifications exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty, signed in April modifying the 1925 Washington Naval Treaty and the arms limitation treaty's modified provisions, go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories. | ||
||1932: Sylvia Plath born ... poet, novelist, and short story writer. | ||1932: Sylvia Plath born ... poet, novelist, and short story writer. | ||
||1941: Ernest Everett Just dies ... biologist, academic and science writer. Just's primary legacy is his recognition of the fundamental role of the cell surface in the development of organisms. In his work within marine biology, cytology and parthenogenesis, he advocated the study of whole cells under normal conditions, rather than simply breaking them apart in a laboratory setting. Pic. | ||1941: Ernest Everett Just dies ... biologist, academic and science writer. Just's primary legacy is his recognition of the fundamental role of the cell surface in the development of organisms. In his work within marine biology, cytology and parthenogenesis, he advocated the study of whole cells under normal conditions, rather than simply breaking them apart in a laboratory setting. Pic. | ||
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||1973: A 1.4 kg chondrite-type meteorite strikes in Cañon City, Colorado. | ||1973: A 1.4 kg chondrite-type meteorite strikes in Cañon City, Colorado. | ||
||1974: C. P. Ramanujam dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic | ||1974: C. P. Ramanujam dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic search. | ||
||1975: Rex Stout dies ... detective novelist. | ||1975: Rex Stout dies ... detective novelist. | ||
||1980: John Hasbrouck Van Vleck dies ... physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1980: John Hasbrouck Van Vleck dies ... physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1981: The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden. | ||1981: The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden. | ||
||1985: Thomas Townsend Brown born ... physicist and engineer, ionic propulsion. Pic search. | |||
||1992: David Joseph Bohm dies ... scientist who has been described as one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th century and who contributed unorthodox ideas to quantum theory, neuropsychology and the philosophy of mind. Bohm advanced the view that quantum physics meant that the old Cartesian model of reality – that there are two kinds of substance, the mental and the physical, that somehow interact – was too limited. To complement it, he developed a mathematical and physical theory of "implicate" and "explicate" order. | ||1992: David Joseph Bohm dies ... scientist who has been described as one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th century and who contributed unorthodox ideas to quantum theory, neuropsychology and the philosophy of mind. Bohm advanced the view that quantum physics meant that the old Cartesian model of reality – that there are two kinds of substance, the mental and the physical, that somehow interact – was too limited. To complement it, he developed a mathematical and physical theory of "implicate" and "explicate" order. He also believed that the brain, at the cellular level, works according to the mathematics of some quantum effects, and postulated that thought is distributed and non-localised just as quantum entities are. | ||
||1994: Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified. | ||1994: Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified. | ||
||1998: Dan Pedoe dies ... mathematician and geometer. Pic | ||1998: Dan Pedoe dies ... mathematician and geometer. Pic search. | ||
||1999: Robert Mills dies ... physicist and academic. | ||1999: Robert Mills dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search. | ||
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' | File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' observes a minute of silence in memory of [[Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|Mariner 9]], which was switched off forty-five years ago. | ||
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1654: Blaise Pascal writes to Pierre de Fermat, praising him for his solution to the Problem of the Points, about which they had exchanged seven previous letters.
1675: Mathematician and academic Gilles de Roberval dies. He published a system of the universe in which he supports the Copernican heliocentric system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter.
1678: Mathematician Pierre Raymond de Montmort born. He will write Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard, an influential book about probability and games of chance which will introduce the combinatorial study of derangements.
1854: Physician Golding Bird dies. He pioneered the medical use of electricity.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars observes a minute of silence in memory of Mariner 9, which was switched off forty-five years ago.
