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File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1522: Mathematician [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and preventprevent [[Crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Pafnuty Chebyshev.jpg|link=Pafnuty Chebyshev (nonfiction)|1821: Mathematician and statistician [[Pafnuty Chebyshev (nonfiction)|Pafnuty Chebyshev]] born. He will prove Chebyshev's inequality (also called the Bienaymé–Chebyshev inequality), which guarantees that, for a wide class of probability distributions, no more than a certain fraction of values can be more than a certain distance from the mean.   
 
File:Maria Gaetana Agnesi engraving.jpg|link=Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|1718: Mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] born. She will write the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus.
 
||1763 – Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist (d. 1829)
   
||1821 – Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and statistician (d. 1894)Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (Russian: Пафну́тий Льво́вич Чебышёв; IPA: [pɐfˈnutʲɪj ˈlʲvovʲɪtɕ tɕɪbɨˈʂof]) (May 16 [O.S. May 4] 1821 – December 8 [O.S. November 26] 1894)[1] was a Russian mathematician.


File:Joseph_Fourier.jpg|link=Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|1830: Mathematician and physicist [[Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|Joseph Fourier]] dies. He initiated the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations.
File:Joseph_Fourier.jpg|link=Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|1830: Mathematician and physicist [[Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|Joseph Fourier]] dies. He initiated the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations.


||Leon Lichtenstein (b. 16 May 1878) was a Polish-German mathematician, who made contributions to the areas of differential equations, conformal mapping, and potential theory. He was also interested in theoretical physics, publishing research in hydrodynamics and astronomy.
File:Orcagna scrying engine.jpg|link=Orcagna scrying engine|1888: The [[Orcagna scrying engine]] previews [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]]'s speech on alternating current technology.


File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1888: [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1888: [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
||1888 – Royal Rife, American microbiologist and instrument maker (d. 1971)
||1891 – The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world's first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form today).
||1903 – Charles F. Brannock, American inventor and manufacturer (d. 1992)
||Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey FRS (b. 16 May 1908) was an Australian mathematical physicist who worked primarily in the fields of atomic and atmospheric physics.
||John Todd (b. May 16, 1911) was a professor of mathematics and a pioneer in the field of numerical analysis.
||Rose Pauline Peltesohn (b. 16 May 1913) was an Israeli mathematician.  She solved the Difference Problems of Lothar Heffter (de) (1896) in combinatorics in 1939. Pic.
||1916 – Ephraim Katzir, Israeli biophysicist and politician, 4th President of Israel (d. 2009)
||Petr Vopěnka (b. 16 May 1935) was a Czech mathematician. In the early seventies, he developed alternative set theory. He will be known for Vopěnka's principle. Pic.
||1938 – Joseph Strauss, American engineer, co designed The Golden Gate Bridge (b. 1870)
||Alfred Jacobus (Alf) van der Poorten (b. 16 May 1942) was a Dutch-Australian number theorist. Pic.
||1946 – Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman (b. 1890)
||1947 – Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
||1960 – Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
||Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky (d. 16 May 1963), codenamed HERO, was a Soviet military intelligence (GRU) colonel during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Penkovsky was responsible for informing the United Kingdom about the Soviet emplacement of missiles in Cuba, thus providing both the UK and the United States with the precise knowledge necessary to address rapidly developing military tensions with Soviet Russia. Pic.


File:Jacques-Louis Lions.jpg|link=Jacques-Louis Lions (nonfiction)|1968: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Jacques-Louis Lions (nonfiction)|Jacques-Louis Lions]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which use partial differential equations and stochastic control to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Jacques-Louis Lions.jpg|link=Jacques-Louis Lions (nonfiction)|1968: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Jacques-Louis Lions (nonfiction)|Jacques-Louis Lions]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which use partial differential equations and stochastic control to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1969 – Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus.
||Michael X (d. 16 May 1975), born Michael de Freitas in Trinidad and Tobago, was a self-styled black revolutionary and civil rights activist in 1960s London. He was also known as Michael Abdul Malik and Abdul Malik. Convicted of murder in 1972, Michael X was executed by hanging in 1975 in Port of Spain's Royal Jail.
||1988 – A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
||Alfred Otto Carl Nier (d. May 16, 1994) was an American physicist who pioneered the development of mass spectrometry. He was the first to use mass spectrometry to isolate uranium-235 which was used to demonstrate that 235U could undergo fission and developed the sector mass spectrometer configuration now known as Nier-Johnson geometry. Pic.
||2011 – STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour.
||2013 – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1933)


File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] wins Pulitzer Prize for "unique and peerless accomplishments in four-dimensional photography."
File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] wins Pulitzer Prize for "unique and peerless accomplishments in four-dimensional photography."


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  • 1821: Mathematician and statistician Pafnuty Chebyshev born. He will prove Chebyshev's inequality (also called the Bienaymé–Chebyshev inequality), which guarantees that, for a wide class of probability distributions, no more than a certain fraction of values can be more than a certain distance from the mean.

    1821: Mathematician and statistician Pafnuty Chebyshev born. He will prove Chebyshev's inequality (also called the Bienaymé–Chebyshev inequality), which guarantees that, for a wide class of probability distributions, no more than a certain fraction of values can be more than a certain distance from the mean.

  • 1830: Mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier dies. He initiated the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations.

    1830: Mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier dies. He initiated the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations.

  • 1888: The Orcagna scrying engine previews Nikola Tesla's speech on alternating current technology.

    1888: The Orcagna scrying engine previews Nikola Tesla's speech on alternating current technology.

  • 1888: Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.

    1888: Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.

  • 1968: Mathematician and crime-fighter Jacques-Louis Lions publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use partial differential equations and stochastic control to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1968: Mathematician and crime-fighter Jacques-Louis Lions publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use partial differential equations and stochastic control to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola wins Pulitzer Prize for "unique and peerless accomplishments in four-dimensional photography."

    2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola wins Pulitzer Prize for "unique and peerless accomplishments in four-dimensional photography."

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