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||1777: Charles Cagniard de la Tour born ... physicist and engineer. | ||1777: Charles Cagniard de la Tour born ... physicist and engineer. | ||
||1806: Thomas Penyngton Kirkman | ||1806: Thomas Penyngton Kirkman born ... mathematician and ordained minister of the Church of England. Pic: https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kirkman | ||
||1831: Archibald Scott Couper born ... chemist who proposed an early theory of chemical structure and bonding. He developed the concepts of tetravalent carbon atoms linking together to form large molecules, and that the bonding order of the atoms in a molecule can be determined from chemical evidence. Pic. | ||1831: Archibald Scott Couper born ... chemist who proposed an early theory of chemical structure and bonding. He developed the concepts of tetravalent carbon atoms linking together to form large molecules, and that the bonding order of the atoms in a molecule can be determined from chemical evidence. Pic. | ||
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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.