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||1826: Henry John Stephen Smith born ... mathematician remembered for his work in elementary divisors, quadratic forms, and Smith–Minkowski–Siegel mass formula in number theory. Pic. | ||1826: Henry John Stephen Smith born ... mathematician remembered for his work in elementary divisors, quadratic forms, and Smith–Minkowski–Siegel mass formula in number theory. Pic. | ||
||1844: John Jacob Loud born ... inventor known for designing the first ballpoint pen. Pic. | |||
||1863: Theodore Judah dies ... engineer ... rail Sierra Nevada | ||1863: Theodore Judah dies ... engineer ... rail Sierra Nevada | ||
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1815: Mathematician and philosopher George Boole born. He will work in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.
1893: Mathematician and crime-fighter George Chrystal publishes evidence that seiches (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water) are vulnerable to both crimes against physics and crimes against chemistry.
1903: George P. Metesky born. He will terrorize New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he plants in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.