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||Zerah Colburn (d. March 2, 1839) was a child prodigy of the 19th century who gained fame as a mental calculator. Pic.
||Zerah Colburn (d. March 2, 1839) was a child prodigy of the 19th century who gained fame as a mental calculator. Pic.
||Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila (d. 12 March 1853) was a Menorcan-born French toxicologist and chemist, the founder of the science of toxicology. Pic.


||Ernesto Cesàro (b. 12 March 1859) was an Italian mathematician who worked in the field of differential geometry. This is his most important contribution, which he described in Lezione di geometria intrinseca (Naples, 1890). This work contains descriptions of curves which today are eponymously named after him. pic
||Ernesto Cesàro (b. 12 March 1859) was an Italian mathematician who worked in the field of differential geometry. This is his most important contribution, which he described in Lezione di geometria intrinseca (Naples, 1890). This work contains descriptions of curves which today are eponymously named after him. pic

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  • 1824: Physicist and academic Gustav Kirchhoff born. He will contribute to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.

    1824: Physicist and academic Gustav Kirchhoff born. He will contribute to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.

  • 1882: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead develops new process philosophy using Gnomon algorithm functions, which will later be used to reverse the effects of certain crimes against mathematical constants.

    1882: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead develops new process philosophy using Gnomon algorithm functions, which will later be used to reverse the effects of certain crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1898: Mathematician and physicist Johann Jakob Balmer dies. He developed an empirical formula for the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom.

    1898: Mathematician and physicist Johann Jakob Balmer dies. He developed an empirical formula for the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom.

  • 1923: Celebrity time-traveller Radium Jane falls asleep, relapses into her Janet Beta state.

    1923: Celebrity time-traveller Radium Jane falls asleep, relapses into her Janet Beta state.

  • 2016: Mathematician and economist Lloyd Shapley dies. He defined game theory as "a mathematical study of conflict and cooperation."

    2016: Mathematician and economist Lloyd Shapley dies. He defined game theory as "a mathematical study of conflict and cooperation."

  • 2016: Game theory program erases itself, unable to bear the death of Lloyd Shapley.

    2016: Game theory program erases itself, unable to bear the death of Lloyd Shapley.

  • 2017: Synthetic organism Ultravore consumes twenty kilograms of plutonium dust with no apparent ill effect.

    2017: Synthetic organism Ultravore consumes twenty kilograms of plutonium dust with no apparent ill effect.

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