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||1933 – The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed. It would later be declared unconstitutional. | ||1933 – The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed. It would later be declared unconstitutional. | ||
||Michel Raynaud (d. 10 March 2018) was a French mathematician working in algebraic geometry. He will be known for Raynaud's isogeny theorem and the Raynaud surface. Pic. | |||
||Acharya Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray (d. 16 June 1944) was an Indian chemist, educator and entrepreneur. Pic. | ||Acharya Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray (d. 16 June 1944) was an Indian chemist, educator and entrepreneur. Pic. | ||
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1522: Mathematician Johannes Stöffler uses Gnomon algorithm functions to predict and prevent Crimes against mathematical constants.
1591: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo born. He will write Elim (Palms), dealing astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.
1806: Physician, scientist, and inventor Edward Davy born. He will play a prominent role in the development of telegraphy, and invent an electric relay.
1839: Mathematician Julius Petersen born. His famous paper Die Theorie der regulären graphs will be a fundamental contribution to modern graph theory.
1915: Mathematician and academic John Tukey born. He will make important contributions to statistical analysis, including the box plot.