Template:Selected anniversaries/January 6: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 29: | Line 29: | ||
||1884 – Gregor Mendel, Czech geneticist and botanist (b. 1822) | ||1884 – Gregor Mendel, Czech geneticist and botanist (b. 1822) | ||
||Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (d. 6 January 1886) was a mechanician and mathematician who contributed to early stress analysis and also developed the unsteady open channel flow shallow water equations, also known as the Saint-Venant equations that are a fundamental set of equations used in modern hydraulic engineering. Pic. | |||
||1912 – German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift. | ||1912 – German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift. | ||
Revision as of 10:23, 4 February 2018
1561: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
1655: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant e, and make important contributions to the field of probability.
1918: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor dies. He invented set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.
1931: Inventor Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.
2015: Color commentators call John Hoyland's Lebanon "colorful in a way that defies description."
2016: Cold weather depresses Bergamot oil market, industry analysts predict spike in gas chromatography prices.
