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• ... that mathematician [[Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|Joseph Wedderburn]] showed that every semisimple algebra finite-dimensional can be constructed as a direct sum of simple algebras and that every simple algebra is isomorphic to a matrix algebra for some division ring; and that the Artin–Wedderburn theorem generalizes this result with the ascending chain condition. | [[File:Shaver Mystery Amazing Stories.jpg|link=Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|The June 1947 issue of ''Amazing Stories'' featured the "Shaver Mystery" by Richard Sharpe Shaver. | ||
|link=Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|175px|thumb|''Amazing Stories'' (June 1947) featuring "The Shaver Mystery" by '''[[Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|Richard Sharpe Shaver]]'''.]] | |||
• ... that writer and artist '''[[Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|Richard Sharpe Shaver]]''' (8 October 1907 – 5 November 1975) achieved notoriety with stories in which he claimed that he had personal experience with a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth? | |||
• ... that mathematician '''[[Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|Joseph Wedderburn]]''' (2 February 1882 – 9 October 1948) showed that every semisimple algebra finite-dimensional can be constructed as a direct sum of simple algebras, and that every simple algebra is isomorphic to a matrix algebra for some division ring; and that the Artin–Wedderburn theorem generalizes this result with the ascending chain condition? | |||
• ... that SN 1604, also known as '''[[Kepler's Supernova (nonfiction)|Kepler's Supernova]]''', was a Type Ia supernova that occurred in the Milky Way, in the constellation Ophiuchus; that it appeared in 1604; and that prior to the adoption of the current naming system for supernovae, it was named for Johannes Kepler, the German astronomer who described it in ''De Stella Nova'' ("The New Star")? | |||
• ... that theoretical physicist '''[[Tullio Regge (nonfiction)|Tullio Regge]]''' (11 July 1931 – 23 October 2014) introduced Regge calculus, a simplicial formulation of general relativity; and that Regge calculus was the first discrete gauge theory suitable for numerical simulation, and an early relative of lattice gauge theory? | |||
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• ... that writer and artist Richard Sharpe Shaver (8 October 1907 – 5 November 1975) achieved notoriety with stories in which he claimed that he had personal experience with a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth?
• ... that mathematician Joseph Wedderburn (2 February 1882 – 9 October 1948) showed that every semisimple algebra finite-dimensional can be constructed as a direct sum of simple algebras, and that every simple algebra is isomorphic to a matrix algebra for some division ring; and that the Artin–Wedderburn theorem generalizes this result with the ascending chain condition?
• ... that SN 1604, also known as Kepler's Supernova, was a Type Ia supernova that occurred in the Milky Way, in the constellation Ophiuchus; that it appeared in 1604; and that prior to the adoption of the current naming system for supernovae, it was named for Johannes Kepler, the German astronomer who described it in De Stella Nova ("The New Star")?
• ... that theoretical physicist Tullio Regge (11 July 1931 – 23 October 2014) introduced Regge calculus, a simplicial formulation of general relativity; and that Regge calculus was the first discrete gauge theory suitable for numerical simulation, and an early relative of lattice gauge theory?