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File:Gilles Personne de Roberval.jpg|link=Gilles de Roberval (nonfiction)|1675: Mathematician and academic [[Gilles de Roberval (nonfiction)|Gilles de Roberval]] dies. He published a system of the universe in which he supports the [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Copernican heliocentric system]] and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter. | File:Gilles Personne de Roberval.jpg|link=Gilles de Roberval (nonfiction)|1675: Mathematician and academic [[Gilles de Roberval (nonfiction)|Gilles de Roberval]] dies. He published a system of the universe in which he supports the [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Copernican heliocentric system]] and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter. | ||
File:Montmort - Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard, 1713.jp|link=|1678: Mathematician [[Pierre Raymond de Montmort (nonfiction)|Pierre Raymond de Montmort]] born. He will the ''Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard'', an influential book about probability and games of chance, which will introduce the combinatorial study of [[Derangement (nonfiction)|derangements]]. | |||
File:Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|1853: [[Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|Mark Twains interviews Wallace War-Heels]]. Twain will later call it "the interview of a lifetime." | File:Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|1853: [[Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|Mark Twains interviews Wallace War-Heels]]. Twain will later call it "the interview of a lifetime." |
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1675: Mathematician and academic Gilles de Roberval dies. He published a system of the universe in which he supports the Copernican heliocentric system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter.
- Montmort - Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard, 1713.jp
1678: Mathematician Pierre Raymond de Montmort born. He will the Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard, an influential book about probability and games of chance, which will introduce the combinatorial study of derangements.
1853: Mark Twains interviews Wallace War-Heels. Twain will later call it "the interview of a lifetime."
1854: Physician Golding Bird dies. He pioneered the medical use of electricity.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars remembers Mariner 9, which was switched off forty-five years ago.