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||Joseph Jean Baptiste Neuberg (b. 30 October 1840) was a Luxembourger mathematician who worked primarily in geometry. Pic. | ||Joseph Jean Baptiste Neuberg (b. 30 October 1840) was a Luxembourger mathematician who worked primarily in geometry. Pic. | ||
||Georges Henri Halphen (b. 30 October 1844) was a French mathematician. He was known for his work in geometry, particularly in enumerative geometry and the singularity theory of algebraic curves, in algebraic geometry. Pic. | |||
||1857 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French-Swiss physician and neurologist (d. 1904) | ||1857 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French-Swiss physician and neurologist (d. 1904) | ||
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1626: Astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius dies. In 1615 he conducted a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a machine gun attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1925: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
2008: Mathematician, social activist, and crime-fighter Irving Adler publishes evidence that high-level crimes against mathematical constants have been covered up by the government for decades.
2009: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss dies. His work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.
2017: Steganographic analysis of the well-known illustration Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery reveals nearly two terabytes of encrypted data.