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||1730 – Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch physician, physiologist, and botanist (d. 1799) | ||1730 – Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch physician, physiologist, and botanist (d. 1799) | ||
||1795 – Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer and mathematician (d. 1874) | ||1795 – Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer and mathematician (d. 1874) Peter Andreas Hansen (born December 8, 1795 Tønder, Schleswig, Denmark – died March 28, 1874 Gotha, Thuringia, Germany) was a Danish German astronomer. | ||
||1807 – Friedrich Traugott Kützing, German pharmacist, botanist and phycologist (d. 1893) diatoms v. desmids | ||1807 – Friedrich Traugott Kützing, German pharmacist, botanist and phycologist (d. 1893) diatoms v. desmids | ||
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1825: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to compute new family of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1834: Inventor and crime-fighter Charles Grafton Page builds new type of scrying engine.
1835: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey secretly prints first edition of The Adulteration of Bergamot.
1864: Mathematician and philosopher George Boole dies. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.
1865: Mathematician Jacques Hadamard born. He will make major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations.
1932: US Navy raises flock of Carnivorous dirigibles.
1955: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Hermann Weyl dies. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century: his research has major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines including number theory.
2017: First use of Weyl semimetal crystals as a quantum time machine which detects and prevents crimes against mathematical constants.
