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||1916 – Ephraim Katzir, Israeli biophysicist and politician, 4th President of Israel (d. 2009) | ||1916 – Ephraim Katzir, Israeli biophysicist and politician, 4th President of Israel (d. 2009) | ||
||Petr Vopěnka (b. 16 May 1935) was a Czech mathematician. In the early seventies, he developed alternative set theory. He will be known for Vopěnka's principle. Pic. | |||
||1938 – Joseph Strauss, American engineer, co designed The Golden Gate Bridge (b. 1870) | ||1938 – Joseph Strauss, American engineer, co designed The Golden Gate Bridge (b. 1870) | ||
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1522: Mathematician Johannes Stöffler uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and preventprevent Crimes against mathematical constants.
1718: Mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian Maria Gaetana Agnesi born. She will write the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus.
1830: Mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier dies. He initiated the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations.
1888: Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
1968: Mathematician and crime-fighter Jacques-Louis Lions publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use partial differential equations and stochastic control to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola wins Pulitzer Prize for "unique and peerless accomplishments in four-dimensional photography."