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||Diederik Johannes Korteweg (b. 31 March 1848) was a Dutch mathematician. He is now best remembered for his work on the Korteweg–de Vries equation, together with Gustav de Vries. | ||Diederik Johannes Korteweg (b. 31 March 1848) was a Dutch mathematician. He is now best remembered for his work on the Korteweg–de Vries equation, together with Gustav de Vries. | ||
||1847 – Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1878) Yegor (Egor) Ivanovich Zolotarev | ||1847 – Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1878) Yegor (Egor) Ivanovich Zolotarev (March 31, 1847) was a Russian mathematician. | ||
File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1861: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] retrofitted with military [[scrying engine]] device. | File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1861: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] retrofitted with military [[scrying engine]] device. | ||
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||1970 – Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit. | ||1970 – Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit. | ||
File:Pin Man.jpg|link=Pin Man|1985: [[Pin Man]] publishes his autobiography. He will quickly receive both praise and death threats. | |File:Pin Man.jpg|link=Pin Man|1985: [[Pin Man]] publishes his autobiography. He will quickly receive both praise and death threats. | ||
File:Coxeter circles.png|link=Coxeter's loxodromic sequence of tangent circles (nonfiction)|1971: Mathematician and crime-fighter Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter uses his famous [[Coxeter's loxodromic sequence of tangent circles (nonfiction)|loxodromic sequence of tangent circles]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||Friedrich Hermann Hund (d. 31 March 1997) was a German physicist from Karlsruhe known for his work on atoms and molecules. | ||Friedrich Hermann Hund (d. 31 March 1997) was a German physicist from Karlsruhe known for his work on atoms and molecules. | ||
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1596: Mathematician and philosopher René Descartes born. He will be remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.
1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military scrying engine device.
1877: Mathematician and philosopher Antoine Augustin Cournot dies. He introduced the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis.
1967: Mathematician and crime-fighter Robin Farquharson publishes proof that most voting systems are vulnerable to crimes against mathematical constants.
1971: Mathematician and crime-fighter Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter uses his famous loxodromic sequence of tangent circles to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2001: Physicist and academic Clifford Shull dies. He shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics with Bertram Brockhouse for the development of the neutron scattering technique.
2003: Mathematician and academic Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter dies. He was one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century.
2017: SOEP cartel threatens to shoot stomach oil smugglers on sight.