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||1601: Florimond de Beaune born ... jurist and mathematician. In a 1638 letter to Descartes, de Beaune described the first example of the inverse tangent method of deducing properties of a curve from its tangents. Pic, book cover: http://www.librairiedesmaths.com/site/ficprod.asp?IDProduit=1887 | |||
File:Montmort - Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard, 1713.jpg|link=Pierre Raymond de Montmort (nonfiction)|1719: Mathematician [[Pierre Raymond de Montmort (nonfiction)|Pierre Raymond de Montmort]] dies. He wrote ''Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard'', an influential book about probability and games of chance which introduced the combinatorial study of [[Derangement (nonfiction)|derangements]]. | File:Montmort - Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard, 1713.jpg|link=Pierre Raymond de Montmort (nonfiction)|1719: Mathematician [[Pierre Raymond de Montmort (nonfiction)|Pierre Raymond de Montmort]] dies. He wrote ''Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard'', an influential book about probability and games of chance which introduced the combinatorial study of [[Derangement (nonfiction)|derangements]]. | ||
||Ole Michael Ludvigsen Selberg | ||1877: Ole Michael Ludvigsen Selberg born ... mathematician and educator. | ||
File:Thomas Reid.jpg|link=Thomas Reid (nonfiction)|1796: Mathematician and philosopher [[Thomas Reid (nonfiction)|Thomas Reid]] dies. Reid believed that common sense (in a special philosophical sense of ''sensus communis'') is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry, justifying our belief that there is an external world. | File:Thomas Reid.jpg|link=Thomas Reid (nonfiction)|1796: Mathematician and philosopher [[Thomas Reid (nonfiction)|Thomas Reid]] dies. Reid believed that common sense (in a special philosophical sense of ''sensus communis'') is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry, justifying our belief that there is an external world. | ||
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File:Red Eyes Fighting.jpg|link=Red Eyes Fighting|1797: ''[[Red Eyes Fighting]]'' "is a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I remember them," says [[Red Eyes]]. | File:Red Eyes Fighting.jpg|link=Red Eyes Fighting|1797: ''[[Red Eyes Fighting]]'' "is a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I remember them," says [[Red Eyes]]. | ||
||1798 | ||1798: Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume born ... instrument maker and businessman. | ||
||Alexandre Brongniart | ||1847: Alexandre Brongniart dies ... chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist, who collaborated with Georges Cuvier on a study of the geology of the region around Paris. Pic. | ||
||Fritz Noether | ||1884: Fritz Noether born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
File:Niels Bohr.jpg|link=Niels Bohr (nonfiction)|1885: Physicist and philosopher [[Niels Bohr (nonfiction)|Niels Bohr]] born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. | File:Niels Bohr.jpg|link=Niels Bohr (nonfiction)|1885: Physicist and philosopher [[Niels Bohr (nonfiction)|Niels Bohr]] born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. | ||
||Øystein Ore | ||1899: Øystein Ore born ... mathematician. | ||
||1903 | ||1903: Rudolf Lipschitz dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||
||Isao Imai | ||1914: Isao Imai born ... theoretical physicist, known for fluid mechanics and mathematical physics. | ||
||Friedrich Hasenöhrl | ||1915: Friedrich Hasenöhrl dies ... physicist. Pic. | ||
||1916 | ||1916: Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history. | ||
File:Henriette_Avram.jpg|link=Henriette Avram (nonfiction)|1919: Computer scientist and academic [[Henriette Avram (nonfiction)|Henriette Avram]] born. She will develope the MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging) format, the international data standard for bibliographic and holdings information in libraries. | File:Henriette_Avram.jpg|link=Henriette Avram (nonfiction)|1919: Computer scientist and academic [[Henriette Avram (nonfiction)|Henriette Avram]] born. She will develope the MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging) format, the international data standard for bibliographic and holdings information in libraries. | ||
||Emil Kraepelin | ||1926: Emil Kraepelin dies ... psychiatrist ... a founder of modern scientific psychiatry, psychopharmacology and psychiatric genetics. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1939: Harold Walter Kroto born ... chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1950: Willis Haviland Carrier dies ... American engineer. | ||
|| | ||1956: Clarence Birdseye dies ... businessman, founded Birds Eye. | ||
|| | ||1959: U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon. | ||
| | ||1963: John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. | ||
||Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov | ||1993: Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov born ... mathematician and geophysicist known for important contributions to topology, functional analysis, mathematical physics, and ill-posed problems. He was also one of the inventors of the magnetotellurics method in geophysics. | ||
||1995 | ||1995: Olga Taussky-Todd dies ... mathematician, attendant of the Vienna Circle. | ||
File:Worcester Lunch Car Company (Research Division).jpg|link=Worcester Lunch Car Company (Research Division)|2017: The [[Worcester Lunch Car Company's Research Division]] demonstrates advanced [[Flying Diner]] technology, including a new dinner menu. | File:Worcester Lunch Car Company (Research Division).jpg|link=Worcester Lunch Car Company (Research Division)|2017: The [[Worcester Lunch Car Company's Research Division]] demonstrates advanced [[Flying Diner]] technology, including a new dinner menu. | ||
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Revision as of 11:00, 15 August 2018
1719: Mathematician Pierre Raymond de Montmort dies. He wrote Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard, an influential book about probability and games of chance which introduced the combinatorial study of derangements.
1796: Mathematician and philosopher Thomas Reid dies. Reid believed that common sense (in a special philosophical sense of sensus communis) is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry, justifying our belief that there is an external world.
1797: Red Eyes Fighting "is a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I remember them," says Red Eyes.
1885: Physicist and philosopher Niels Bohr born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
1919: Computer scientist and academic Henriette Avram born. She will develope the MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging) format, the international data standard for bibliographic and holdings information in libraries.
2017: The Worcester Lunch Car Company's Research Division demonstrates advanced Flying Diner technology, including a new dinner menu.