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||1908: Daniel Coit Gilman dies ... educator and academic. Gilman was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College, and subsequently served as the third president of the University of California, as the first president of Johns Hopkins University, and as founding president of the Carnegie Institution. He was also co-founder of the Russell Trust Association, which administers the business affairs of Yale's Skull and Bones society. Gilman served for twenty five years as president of Johns Hopkins; his inauguration in 1876 has been said to mark "the starting point of postgraduate education in the U.S." | ||1908: Daniel Coit Gilman dies ... educator and academic. Gilman was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College, and subsequently served as the third president of the University of California, as the first president of Johns Hopkins University, and as founding president of the Carnegie Institution. He was also co-founder of the Russell Trust Association, which administers the business affairs of Yale's Skull and Bones society. Gilman served for twenty five years as president of Johns Hopkins; his inauguration in 1876 has been said to mark "the starting point of postgraduate education in the U.S." | ||
||1913: Gyula Vályidies ... mathematician and theoretical physicist, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, known for his work on mathematical analysis, geometry, and number theory. Pic. | ||1913: Gyula Vályidies dies ... mathematician and theoretical physicist, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, known for his work on mathematical analysis, geometry, and number theory. Pic. | ||
||1918: Marcel Deprez dies ... electrical engineer. Pic. | ||1918: Marcel Deprez dies ... electrical engineer. Pic. | ||
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1687: Astronomer, lens-maker, and academic Geminiano Montanari dies. He made the observation that Algol in the constellation of Perseus varies in brightness.
1688: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Christiaan Huygens statistical analysis and games of chance to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1715: Priest and philosopher Nicolas Malebranche dies. He was instrumental in introducing and disseminating the work of René Descartes and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in France.
1773: The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier.
1774: The Custodian prevents the Whirlpool Galaxy Gang from committing astronomical crimes against mathematical constants.
1890: Mathematician Georg Feigl born. He will work on the foundations of geometry and topology, studying fixed point theorems for n-dimensional manifolds. Feigl will be one of the initial authors of the Mathematisches Wörterbuch.
1989: Lorenz system develops self-awareness, experiences irrational fear of the number thirteen.