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||1923 – Carl Djerassi, Austrian-American chemist, author, and playwright (d. 2015) | ||1923 – Carl Djerassi, Austrian-American chemist, author, and playwright (d. 2015) | ||
||1925 – Klaus Roth, British mathematician (d. 2015) | ||1925 – Klaus Roth, British mathematician (d. 2015) Klaus Friedrich Roth (29 October 1925 – 10 November 2015) was a German-born British mathematician known for work on diophantine approximation, the large sieve, and irregularities of distribution. | ||
||1933 – Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France (b. 1853) | ||1933 – Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France (b. 1853) | ||
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1675: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
1732: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi is granted professorship in philosophy by the University of Bologna, thus also making her a member of the Academy of the Sciences.
1783: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Jean le Rond d'Alembert dies. He made contributions to mathematics and physics, including D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation.
1965 Oct. 29: Long Shot nuclear weapons test at Amchitka, Alaska. It was the largest underground explosion ever detonated by the United States.
2017: "Brainiac is planning to kill us all," warns Lord Kelvin.