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||1847 – Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1878) Yegor (Egor) Ivanovich Zolotarev (March 31, 1847) was a Russian mathematician. | ||1847 – Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1878) Yegor (Egor) Ivanovich Zolotarev (March 31, 1847) was a Russian mathematician. | ||
|| | ||1850: Charles Doolittle Walcott born ... paleontologist, administrator of the Smithsonian Institution from 1907 to 1927, and geologist. He is famous for his discovery in 1909 of well-preserved fossils in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada. Pic. | ||
||1854: Dugald Clerk (b. 1854) was a Scottish engineer who designed the world's first successful two-stroke engine[2][3] in 1878 Pic. | |||
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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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.
2004: Mathematician Tan Lei and crime-fighter publishes study of complex dynamics and functions of complex numbers with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.