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File:Hans Hahn.jpg|link=Hans Hahn (nonfiction)|1879: Mathematician and philosopher [[Hans Hahn (nonfiction)|Hans Hahn]] born. He will make contributions to functional analysis, topology, set theory, the calculus of variations, real analysis, and order theory. | File:Hans Hahn.jpg|link=Hans Hahn (nonfiction)|1879: Mathematician and philosopher [[Hans Hahn (nonfiction)|Hans Hahn]] born. He will make contributions to functional analysis, topology, set theory, the calculus of variations, real analysis, and order theory. | ||
||Joseph Thomas Clover (d. 27 September 1882) was an English doctor and pioneer of anaesthesia. He invented a variety of pieces of apparatus to deliver anaesthetics including ether and chloroform safely and controllably. By 1871 he had administered anaesthetics 13,000 times without a fatality. | |||
||1885 – Harry Blackstone, Sr., American magician (d. 1965) | ||1885 – Harry Blackstone, Sr., American magician (d. 1965) | ||
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1737: Mathematician and engineer Hubert Gautier dies. Gautier wrote several published works on engineering, civil engineering and geology.
1879: Mathematician and philosopher Hans Hahn born. He will make contributions to functional analysis, topology, set theory, the calculus of variations, real analysis, and order theory.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1962: Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
2017: The well-known illustration Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery sells for seven million dollars at charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.