Template:Selected anniversaries/October 29: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 19:35, 9 April 2018

1675: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
1732: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi is granted professorship in philosophy by the University of Bologna, thus also making her a member of the Academy of the Sciences.
1783: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Jean le Rond d'Alembert dies. He made contributions to mathematics and physics, including D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation.
1965 Oct. 29: Long Shot nuclear weapons test at Amchitka, Alaska. It was the largest underground explosion ever detonated by the United States.
2017: "Brainiac is planning to kill us all," warns Lord Kelvin.

@@ Line 6: / Line 6: @@
 File:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.jpg|link=Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|1675: [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in [[Calculus (nonfiction)|calculus]].
-||1690 – Martin Folkes, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1754)
+||Martin Folkes (b. 29 October 1690), was an English antiquary, numismatist, mathematician, and astronomer. Pic.
 File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1732: Physicist and academic [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] is granted professorship in philosophy by the University of Bologna, thus also making her a member of the Academy of the Sciences.