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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: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: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: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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||1944: Operation Scherhorn, Soviet deception against Nazi intelligence ... a wireless message from Max to German Command. | ||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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||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. | ||
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Latest revision as of 12:11, 7 February 2022
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.
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.