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File:Regiomontanus Nuremberg chronicles.jpg|link=Regiomontanus (nonfiction)|1461: Mathematician, astronomer, bishop, and [[APTO]]  theological liason [[Regiomontanus (nonfiction)|Johann Regiomontanus]] gives his famous "No more lies" sermon in which he accuses the [[House of Malevecchio]] of "funding and conducting [[crimes against astronomical constants]] which span decades, if not centures or millenia."
File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1687: [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]] publishes ''Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica'' ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"). ''Principia''  states Newton's laws of motion, forming the foundation of classical mechanics; Newton's law of universal gravitation; and a derivation of Kepler's laws of planetary motion (which Kepler first obtained empirically).
File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1687: [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]] publishes ''Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica'' ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"). ''Principia''  states Newton's laws of motion, forming the foundation of classical mechanics; Newton's law of universal gravitation; and a derivation of Kepler's laws of planetary motion (which Kepler first obtained empirically).


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||1888: Herbert Spencer Gasser born ... physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1888: Herbert Spencer Gasser born ... physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1888: Louise Freeland Jenkins born ... astronomer and academic.
||1888: Louise Freeland Jenkins born ... astronomer and academic. Compiled a valuable catalogue of stars within 10 parsecs of the sun; edited the 3rd edition of the Yale Bright Star Catalogue. Pic.


||1891: John Howard Northrop born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1891: John Howard Northrop born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1892: Geologist and Arctic explorer Lauge Koch born; expeditions to Greenland. Pic.


||1904: Ernst Mayr born ... biologist and ornithologist ... taxonomy, speciation. Pic.
||1904: Ernst Mayr born ... biologist and ornithologist ... taxonomy, speciation. Pic.
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||1932: René-Louis Baire dies ... mathematician most famous for his Baire category theorem, which helped to generalize and prove future theorems. Pic.
||1932: René-Louis Baire dies ... mathematician most famous for his Baire category theorem, which helped to generalize and prove future theorems. Pic.
File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|1939: "''The Safe-Cracker'' was not a [[math crime]]," says art critic and alleged math criminal [[The Eel]]. "I was looking for evidence that I was framed.  And I found it."


File:Oskar Bolza.jpg|link=Oskar Bolza (nonfiction)|1942: Mathematician [[Oskar Bolza (nonfiction)|Oskar Bolza]] dies. He is known for his research in the calculus of variations; his work on variations for an integral problem involving inequalities later became important in control theory.
File:Oskar Bolza.jpg|link=Oskar Bolza (nonfiction)|1942: Mathematician [[Oskar Bolza (nonfiction)|Oskar Bolza]] dies. He is known for his research in the calculus of variations; his work on variations for an integral problem involving inequalities later became important in control theory.
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||2015: Yoichiro Nambu dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||2015: Yoichiro Nambu dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:Violet Spiral.jpg|link=Violet Spiral (nonfiction)|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Violet Spiral (nonfiction)|Violet Spiral]]'' purchased for an undisclosed sum by "an eminent [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist from [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
File:Pin Man number 1 cover art.jpg|link=Pin Man (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of [[Pin Man (nonfiction)|Pin Man #1]] stolen from the Louvre in a daring daylight robbery allegedly masterminded by [[Baron Zersetzung]].


||2018: Evgeny Golod dies ... mathematician who proved the Golod–Shafarevich theorem on class field towers. As an application, he gave a negative solution to the Kurosh–Levitzky problem on the nilpotency of finitely generated nil algebras, and so to a weak form of Burnside's problem. Pic: http://www.advgrouptheory.com/GTArchivum/Pictures/gtphotos.html
||2018: Evgeny Golod dies ... mathematician who proved the Golod–Shafarevich theorem on class field towers. As an application, he gave a negative solution to the Kurosh–Levitzky problem on the nilpotency of finitely generated nil algebras, and so to a weak form of Burnside's problem. Pic: http://www.advgrouptheory.com/GTArchivum/Pictures/gtphotos.html


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Latest revision as of 20:17, 6 February 2022

  • 1687: Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"). Principia states Newton's laws of motion, forming the foundation of classical mechanics; Newton's law of universal gravitation; and a derivation of Kepler's laws of planetary motion (which Kepler first obtained empirically).

    1687: Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"). Principia states Newton's laws of motion, forming the foundation of classical mechanics; Newton's law of universal gravitation; and a derivation of Kepler's laws of planetary motion (which Kepler first obtained empirically).

  • 1833: Inventor Nicéphore Niépce dies. He invented heliography, a technique which he used to create the world's oldest surviving product of a photographic process.

    1833: Inventor Nicéphore Niépce dies. He invented heliography, a technique which he used to create the world's oldest surviving product of a photographic process.

  • 1942: Mathematician Oskar Bolza dies. He is known for his research in the calculus of variations; his work on variations for an integral problem involving inequalities later became important in control theory.

    1942: Mathematician Oskar Bolza dies. He is known for his research in the calculus of variations; his work on variations for an integral problem involving inequalities later became important in control theory.

  • 2009: Discovery of the Staffordshire hoard, the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered in England, consisting of more than 1,500 items found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, Staffordshire.

    2009: Discovery of the Staffordshire hoard, the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered in England, consisting of more than 1,500 items found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, Staffordshire.

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