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||1663: Guillaume Amontons born ... physicist and instrument maker. | ||1663: Guillaume Amontons born ... physicist and instrument maker. | ||
||1682: Mathematician Michele Rolle published an elegant solution to a difficult problem publicly posed by Ozanam: Find four integers the difference of any two of which is a perfect square as well as the sum of three of the numbers. This brought him public recognition. Pic. | |||
||1721: John Keill dies ... Scottish mathematician, academic and author who was an important disciple of Isaac Newton. No pic. | ||1721: John Keill dies ... Scottish mathematician, academic and author who was an important disciple of Isaac Newton. No pic. | ||
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1635: Mathematician, theologian, and crime-fighter Marin Mersenne uses new theory of acoustics to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1649: Architect Inigo Jones uses Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry to design buildings which are resistant to crimes against mathematical constants.
1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1945: Mathematician and academic Stefan Banach dies. He was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Discovers Time Travel sells for two and a half million dollars."