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||1993 – Lipman Bers, Latvian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1914) | ||1993 – Lipman Bers, Latvian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1914) | ||
||Richard James Duffin (d. October 29, 1996) was an American physicist, known for his contributions to electrical transmission theory and to the development of geometric programming and other areas within operations research. | |||
||1997 – Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, Greek-American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1947) | ||1997 – Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, Greek-American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1947) | ||
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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.