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||1550: Architect and military engineer Antonio Ferramolino, is killed during the siege of Mahdia in modern Tunisia. Pic: map: http://www.lescalinatedellarte.com/it/?q=node/4377
||1550: Architect and military engineer Antonio Ferramolino, is killed during the siege of Mahdia in modern Tunisia. Pic: map: http://www.lescalinatedellarte.com/it/?q=node/4377


File:Blaise Pascal.jpg|link=Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|1633: Mathematician, physicist, inventor, and Christian crime-fighter [[Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|Blaise Pascal]] demonstrates pioneering calculating machine which detects and prevents [[crimes against physics]].
File:Urbain Grandier.jpg|link=Urbain Grandier (nonfiction)|1634: Catholic priest [[Urbain Grandier (nonfiction)|Urbain Grandier]], accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France. He was the victim of a politically motivated persecution led by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
 
File:Urbain Grandier.jpg|link=Urbain Grandier (nonfiction)|1634: [[Urbain Grandier (nonfiction)|Urbain Grandier]], accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France. He was the victim of a politically motivated persecution led by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.


||1652: Florimond de Beaune dies ... jurist and mathematician. In a 1638 letter to Descartes, de Beaune described the first example of the inverse tangent method of deducing properties of a curve from its tangents. Pic, book cover: http://www.librairiedesmaths.com/site/ficprod.asp?IDProduit=1887
||1652: Florimond de Beaune dies ... jurist and mathematician. In a 1638 letter to Descartes, de Beaune described the first example of the inverse tangent method of deducing properties of a curve from its tangents. Pic, book cover: http://www.librairiedesmaths.com/site/ficprod.asp?IDProduit=1887
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||1908: Frederick Bawden born ... plant pathologist whose research interest was in plant viruses, and how best to ensure that a farmer could grow healthy and productive crops. With his associates, in 1937, he discovered that the tobacco mozaic virus contained ribonucleic acid (RNA). Nucleic acids were known to be present in all cells, but this was the first time that RNA was observed in a virus, which is a subcellular infectious agent. Pic: https://www.todayinsci.com/8/8_18.htm
||1908: Frederick Bawden born ... plant pathologist whose research interest was in plant viruses, and how best to ensure that a farmer could grow healthy and productive crops. With his associates, in 1937, he discovered that the tobacco mozaic virus contained ribonucleic acid (RNA). Nucleic acids were known to be present in all cells, but this was the first time that RNA was observed in a virus, which is a subcellular infectious agent. Pic: https://www.todayinsci.com/8/8_18.htm
File:Vilfredo Pareto 1870s.jpg|link=Vilfredo Pareto (nonfiction)|1909: Engineer, sociologist, economist, and crime analyst [[Vilfredo Pareto (nonfiction)|Vilfredo Pareto]] publishes new wealth distribution model which uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and locate exotic materials such as [[Corinthium]] and [[Malvoleum]].


File:Pál Turán.jpg|link=Pál Turán (nonfiction)|1910: Mathematician [[Pál Turán (nonfiction)|Pál Turán]] born. He will work primarily in number theory, but also contribute to analysis and graph theory.
File:Pál Turán.jpg|link=Pál Turán (nonfiction)|1910: Mathematician [[Pál Turán (nonfiction)|Pál Turán]] born. He will work primarily in number theory, but also contribute to analysis and graph theory.
File:Havelock_and_Tesla_telecommunications_research.jpg|link=Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|1910: Judge Havelock and Nikola Tesla demonstrate [[Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|new data transmission protocols]] which will be useful in predicting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Klara Dan von Neumann.png|link=Klara Dan von Neumann (nonfiction)|1911: Computer scientist [[Klara Dan von Neumann (nonfiction)|Klara Dan von Neumann]] born. She will be one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.
File:Klara Dan von Neumann.png|link=Klara Dan von Neumann (nonfiction)|1911: Computer scientist [[Klara Dan von Neumann (nonfiction)|Klara Dan von Neumann]] born. She will be one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.
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||1943: Friedrich Moritz Hartogs dies ... mathematician, known for his work on set theory and foundational results on several complex variables. Pic.
||1943: Friedrich Moritz Hartogs dies ... mathematician, known for his work on set theory and foundational results on several complex variables. Pic.


File:Hugo Gernsback by Bachrach.jpg|link=Hugo Gernsback (nonfiction)|1956: Inventor, writer, editor, and publisher [[Hugo Gernsback (nonfiction)|Hugo Gernsback]] issues a call for entries for his new mathematical journal, ''Gnomon Chronicles Quarterly''.
||1944: Operation Scherhorn, Soviet deception against Nazi intelligence ... a wireless message from Max to German Command.  


||1960: Carlo Emilio Bonferroni born ... mathematician who worked on probability theory. Bonferroni is best known for the Bonferroni inequalities (a generalization of the union bound), and for the Bonferroni correction in statistics (which he did not invent but which utilizes his inequalities). Pic.
||1960: Carlo Emilio Bonferroni born ... mathematician who worked on probability theory. Bonferroni is best known for the Bonferroni inequalities (a generalization of the union bound), and for the Bonferroni correction in statistics (which he did not invent but which utilizes his inequalities). Pic.
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||1986: Seventy-two Nobel Prize-winning scientists filed a legal brief with the U.S. Supreme Court challenging as unconstitutional a Louisiana law requiring schools that teach evolution to also teach “creation-science.” A news release described the scientists as “the largest group of Nobel laureates ever to support a single statement on any subject..” At a news conference in Washington D.C. the same day, they warned that the Louisiana law threatened scientific education by disparaging proven scientific facts to promote fundamentalist Christian beliefs.  
||1986: Seventy-two Nobel Prize-winning scientists filed a legal brief with the U.S. Supreme Court challenging as unconstitutional a Louisiana law requiring schools that teach evolution to also teach “creation-science.” A news release described the scientists as “the largest group of Nobel laureates ever to support a single statement on any subject..” At a news conference in Washington D.C. the same day, they warned that the Louisiana law threatened scientific education by disparaging proven scientific facts to promote fundamentalist Christian beliefs.  
||1988: Michael Willcox Perrin dies ... scientist who created the first practical polythene, directed the first British atomic bomb programme, and participated in the Allied intelligence of the Nazi atomic bomb. Pic.


||1990: B. F. Skinner dies ... psychologist whose pioneering work in experimental psychology promoted behaviorism, shaping behavior through positive and negative reinforcement and demonstrated operant conditioning. The “Skinner box” he used in experiments from 1930 remains famous. To investigate the learning processes of animals, he observed their behaviour in a simple box with a lever which, when activated by the animal, would give a reward (or punishment). The reward, such as pellets of food or water, acts as a primary reinforcer. He observed the behaviour of animals adapted to utilize the opportunity for a reward. He extended his theories to the behaviour of humans, as a form of social engineering. Pic.
||1990: B. F. Skinner dies ... psychologist whose pioneering work in experimental psychology promoted behaviorism, shaping behavior through positive and negative reinforcement and demonstrated operant conditioning. The “Skinner box” he used in experiments from 1930 remains famous. To investigate the learning processes of animals, he observed their behaviour in a simple box with a lever which, when activated by the animal, would give a reward (or punishment). The reward, such as pellets of food or water, acts as a primary reinforcer. He observed the behaviour of animals adapted to utilize the opportunity for a reward. He extended his theories to the behaviour of humans, as a form of social engineering. Pic.
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||2015: Charles John Read dies ... mathematician known for his work in functional analysis. In operator theory, he is best known for his work in the 1980s on the invariant subspace problem, where he constructed operators with only trivial invariant subspaces on particular Banach spaces Pic.
||2015: Charles John Read dies ... mathematician known for his work in functional analysis. In operator theory, he is best known for his work in the 1980s on the invariant subspace problem, where he constructed operators with only trivial invariant subspaces on particular Banach spaces Pic.
File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2016: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]].
File:Cowries.jpg|link=Cowries (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Cowries (nonfiction)|Cowries]]'' stolen from the Museum of Modern Art in New York by agents of the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang.
File:Yorkshire Tea.jpg|link=It’s because of your taste buds that the Yorkshire Tea hurt Daddy’s brain (nonfiction)|2019: "[[It’s because of your taste buds that the Yorkshire Tea hurt Daddy’s brain (nonfiction)|It’s because of your taste buds that the Yorkshire Tea hurt Daddy’s brain]]" is declared Joke of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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  • 1634: Catholic priest Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France. He was the victim of a politically motivated persecution led by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.

    1634: Catholic priest Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France. He was the victim of a politically motivated persecution led by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.

  • 1910: Mathematician Pál Turán born. He will work primarily in number theory, but also contribute to analysis and graph theory.

    1910: Mathematician Pál Turán born. He will work primarily in number theory, but also contribute to analysis and graph theory.

  • 1911: Computer scientist Klara Dan von Neumann born. She will be one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.

    1911: Computer scientist Klara Dan von Neumann born. She will be one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.

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