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File:Arnold's cat map.png|link=Arnold's cat map (nonfiction)|2000: [[Arnold's cat map (nonfiction)|Arnold's cat map]] is "better than a laser pointer for keeping a cat amused," says mathematician and cat psychologist [[Vladimir Arnold (nonfiction)|Vladimir Arnold]]. | File:Arnold's cat map.png|link=Arnold's cat map (nonfiction)|2000: [[Arnold's cat map (nonfiction)|Arnold's cat map]] is "better than a laser pointer for keeping a cat amused," says mathematician and cat psychologist [[Vladimir Arnold (nonfiction)|Vladimir Arnold]]. | ||
||2005 dies: Dmitry Yevgenyevich Okhotsimsky was a Soviet Russian aerospace engineer and scientist who was the pioneer of space ballistics in the USSR. He wrote fundamental works in applied celestial mechanics, spaceflight dynamics and robotics. Pic. | |||
||2006 – Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (b. 1911) | ||2006 – Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (b. 1911) |
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1661: Scientist, inventor, and industrialist Christopher Polhem born. He will make significant contributions to the economic and industrial development of Sweden, particularly mining.
1799: Mathematician and theorist Jean-Étienne Montucla dies. His deep interest in history of mathematics became apparent with his publication of Histoire des Mathématiques, the first part appearing in 1758.
1956: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised address to the nation, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "math-crimes complex."
1958: Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
1966: Accidental release of nuclear weapons precipitates new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1995: Physicist Nathan Rosen dies. He developed the idea of the Einstein–Rosen bridge, later named the wormhole.
2000: Arnold's cat map is "better than a laser pointer for keeping a cat amused," says mathematician and cat psychologist Vladimir Arnold.