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File:Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet.jpg|link=Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|1859: Mathematician [[Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet]] dies. He made important contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. Dirichlet was one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function. | File:Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet.jpg|link=Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|1859: Mathematician [[Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet]] dies. He made important contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. Dirichlet was one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function. | ||
File:Pin Man.jpg|link=Pin Man|1867: [[Pin Man]] escapes from the [[Carnevale Tenebre]], finds sanctuary in the town of [[Periphery ( | File:Pin Man.jpg|link=Pin Man|1867: [[Pin Man]] escapes from the [[Carnevale Tenebre]], finds sanctuary in the town of [[Periphery (town)|Periphery]]. | ||
File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1868: Inventor, physician, chemist [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] dies. His work had a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that maintained 'the scientific do not patent'. | File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1868: Inventor, physician, chemist [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] dies. His work had a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that maintained 'the scientific do not patent'. | ||
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1859: Mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet dies. He made important contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. Dirichlet was one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.
1867: Pin Man escapes from the Carnevale Tenebre, finds sanctuary in the town of Periphery.
1868: Inventor, physician, chemist Charles Grafton Page dies. His work had a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that maintained 'the scientific do not patent'.
1869: Friedrich Nietzsche uses his doctrine of eternal return to hunt down and capture math criminals.
1933: The New York Times The New York Times publishes a front-page account of a scientific paper on radio astronomy by Karl Guthe Jansky.
2017: The Eel Time-Surfing wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "most exciting illustration of the decade."
2018: Creature 3, stolen last year by the Forbidden Ratio gang, is recovered with all of its data intact.