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||1856: Farkas Bolyai dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||1856: Farkas Bolyai dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||
||1861: Louis Albert Necker de Saussure dies ... crystallographer and geographer. He is best remembered for devising the optical illusion now known as the Necker cube. Pic: Necker cube. | |||
||1885: Olive Dennis born ... engineer. | ||1885: Olive Dennis born ... engineer. | ||
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1889: Astronomer and cosmologist Edwin Hubble. He will discover the fact that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way.
1908: Mathematician Georgy Voronoy dies. He invented what are today called Voronoi diagrams or Voronoi tessellations.
1924: Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot born.
1924: Captive supervillain Fugitive Rubies gathering strength for escape attempt, says Niles Cartouchian.
1934: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Willem de Sitter dies. He co-authored a paper with Albert Einstein in 1932 in which they discuss the implications of cosmological data for the curvature of the universe.
1980: Lake Peigneur drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole.
1996: Theoretical physicist and crime-fighter Mohammad Abdus Salam translates electroweak unification theory into Gnomon algorithm functions, providing a library of techniques for detecting and preventing crimes against electroweak forces.
1980: Voyager 1 flies by Saturn, completing its primary mission.
1981: Outbreak of Geometrical frustration releases previously unknown class of crimes against mathematical constants, causing an outbreak of Scrimshaw abuse.