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||1795: Gabriel Lamé born ... mathematician who contributed to the theory of partial differential equations by the use of curvilinear coordinates, and the mathematical theory of elasticity. | ||1795: Gabriel Lamé born ... mathematician who contributed to the theory of partial differential equations by the use of curvilinear coordinates, and the mathematical theory of elasticity. | ||
File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1826: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] dies. He discovered dwarf planet Ceres. | ||1802: Marie François Xavier Bichat dies ... anatomist and physiologist. | ||
File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1826: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] dies. He discovered the dwarf planet Ceres. | |||
File:Niles Cartouchian.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian|1827: Gem detective and astronomer [[Niles Cartouchian]] discovers [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals]] on the dwarf planet Ceres. | File:Niles Cartouchian.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian|1827: Gem detective and astronomer [[Niles Cartouchian]] discovers [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals]] on the dwarf planet Ceres. | ||
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||1888: Selman Waksman born ... biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1888: Selman Waksman born ... biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1902: Reinhold Baer born ... mathematician, known for his work in algebra. He introduced injective modules in 1940. He is the eponym of Baer rings and Baer groups. Pic. | |||
||1902: Reinhold Baer born ... mathematician, known for his work in algebra. He introduced injective modules in 1940. He is the eponym of Baer rings and Baer groups. | |||
||1907: Edgar Raymond Lorch born ... mathematician. Described by The New York Times as "a leader in the development of modern mathematics theory" Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Lorch_Ray.html | ||1907: Edgar Raymond Lorch born ... mathematician. Described by The New York Times as "a leader in the development of modern mathematics theory" Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Lorch_Ray.html | ||
Revision as of 07:53, 7 February 2019
1826: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi dies. He discovered the dwarf planet Ceres.
1827: Gem detective and astronomer Niles Cartouchian discovers time crystals on the dwarf planet Ceres.
1827: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming dies. He proposed worldwide standard time zones.
1932: Inventor Reginald Fessenden dies. He performed pioneering experiments in radio, including the use of continuous waves and the early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music.
1962: Engineer, pilot, and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt tries to warn NASA that Mariner 1 has been targeted by math criminals.
1962: Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
2016: Signed first edition of Spiral sells for an undisclosed amount to "a prominent mathematician and long-time resident of New Minneapolis, Canada."