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||1877 – James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (d. 1946) | ||1877 – James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (d. 1946) | ||
||Felice Casorati (d. 11 September 1890) was an Italian mathematician who studied at the University of Pavia. He was born in Pavia and died in Casteggio. He is best known for the Casorati–Weierstrass theorem in complex analysis. | |||
||Heini Halberstam (b. 11 September 1926) was a British mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. He is one of the two mathematicians after whom the Elliott–Halberstam conjecture is named. | ||Heini Halberstam (b. 11 September 1926) was a British mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. He is one of the two mathematicians after whom the Elliott–Halberstam conjecture is named. | ||
Revision as of 18:46, 5 November 2017
1843: Mathematician and explorer Joseph Nicollet dies. He mapped the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s.
1859: Surgeon and gentleman scientist James Braid uses principles of hypnotherapy to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1862: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, born.
2017: Renaissance-era mechanical soldier Clock Head performs stand-up comedy routine for charity, raises five million dollars for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.