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||1916 – Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic (b. 1838) | ||1916 – Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic (b. 1838) | ||
||1918 – Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician and politician (b. 1845) | ||1918 – Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician and politician (b. 1845) Ulisse Dini (14 November 1845 – 28 October 1918) was an Italian mathematician and politician, born in Pisa. He is known for his contribution to real analysis, | ||
||1919 – The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January. | ||1919 – The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January. | ||
Revision as of 17:38, 5 November 2017
1703: Mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux born. He will make a living manufacturing sundials.
1763: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter Jean le Rond d'Alembert uses D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to crimes against mathematical constants.
2005: Chemist and academic Richard Smalley dies. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.
Image of Cantor Parabola contains "several terabytes of encrypted data," according to new steganographic analysis.