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||Edmund Taylor Whittaker FRS FRSE (b. 24 October 1873) was an English mathematician who contributed widely to applied mathematics, mathematical physics and the theory of special functions. He had a particular interest in numerical analysis, but also worked on celestial mechanics and the history of physics. | ||Edmund Taylor Whittaker FRS FRSE (b. 24 October 1873) was an English mathematician who contributed widely to applied mathematics, mathematical physics and the theory of special functions. He had a particular interest in numerical analysis, but also worked on celestial mechanics and the history of physics. | ||
||Albert Châtelet (24 October 1883 | ||George Braxton Pegram (b/ October 24, 1876) was an American physicist who played a key role in the technical administration of the Manhattan Project. | ||
||Albert Châtelet (b. 24 October 1883) was a French politician and mathematician. | |||
||1901 – Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in t a barrel. | ||1901 – Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in t a barrel. | ||
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1601: Astronomer Tycho Brahe dies. He will make observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.
1602: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Tycho Brahe's astronomical observations to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi dies. He clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
2015: Steganographic analysis of Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.