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File:Charles Proteus Steinmetz.jpg|link=Charles Proteus Steinmetz (nonfiction)|1865: Mathematician and electrical engineer [[Charles Proteus Steinmetz (nonfiction)|Charles Proteus Steinmetz]] born. He will foster the development of alternating current, formulating mathematical theories which will advance the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States. | File:Charles Proteus Steinmetz.jpg|link=Charles Proteus Steinmetz (nonfiction)|1865: Mathematician and electrical engineer [[Charles Proteus Steinmetz (nonfiction)|Charles Proteus Steinmetz]] born. He will foster the development of alternating current, formulating mathematical theories which will advance the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States. | ||
||Élie Joseph Cartan, ForMemRS (b. 9 April 1869) was an influential French mathematician who did fundamental work in the theory of Lie groups and their geometric applications. He also made significant contributions to mathematical physics, differential geometry, differential equations, group theory and quantum mechanics. | |||
||1883 – Frank King, American cartoonist (d. 1969) | ||1883 – Frank King, American cartoonist (d. 1969) | ||
||1889 – Michel Eugène Chevreul, French chemist and academic (b. 1786) | ||1889 – Michel Eugène Chevreul, French chemist and academic (b. 1786) | ||
File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] publishes new [[Set theory (nonfiction)|theory of sets]] derived from [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]." | File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] publishes new [[Set theory (nonfiction)|theory of sets]] derived from [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]." | ||
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1770: Physicist and academic Thomas Johann Seebeck born. He will discover the thermoelectric effect.
1864: Engineer and physicist Wilhelm Röntgen uses X-rays generator to expose loaded dice, reveals organized math crime cartel in casinos around the world.
1865: Mathematician and electrical engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz born. He will foster the development of alternating current, formulating mathematical theories which will advance the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States.
1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new theory of sets derived from Gnomon algorithm functions. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants."
1978: Musician and alleged math criminal Skip Digits performs at the Kennedy Center for the Arts.