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||1821: Pafnuty Chebyshev born ... mathematician and statistician. Pic. | ||1821: Pafnuty Chebyshev born ... mathematician and statistician. Pic. | ||
||1828: William Congreve born ... inventor and rocket artillery pioneer distinguished for his development and deployment of Congreve rockets Pic. | |||
File:Joseph_Fourier.jpg|link=Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|1830: Mathematician and physicist [[Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|Joseph Fourier]] dies. He initiated the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations. | File:Joseph_Fourier.jpg|link=Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|1830: Mathematician and physicist [[Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|Joseph Fourier]] dies. He initiated the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations. | ||
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||1891: The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world's first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form today). | ||1891: The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world's first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form today). | ||
||1903: Charles F. Brannock born ... inventor and manufacturer. | ||1903: Charles F. Brannock born ... inventor and manufacturer (shoe measurement). Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Charles+F.+Brannock | ||
||1908: Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey born ... mathematical physicist who worked primarily in the fields of atomic and atmospheric physics. | ||1908: Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey born ... mathematical physicist who worked primarily in the fields of atomic and atmospheric physics. Pic. | ||
||1909: Rudolf Kompfner born ... engineer and physicist, best known as the inventor of the traveling-wave tube (TWT). Pic: https://ethw.org/File:Kompfner.jpg | ||1909: Rudolf Kompfner born ... engineer and physicist, best known as the inventor of the traveling-wave tube (TWT). Pic: https://ethw.org/File:Kompfner.jpg | ||
||1911: John Todd born ... professor of mathematics and a pioneer in the field of numerical analysis. | ||1911: John Todd born ... professor of mathematics and a pioneer in the field of numerical analysis. Pic. | ||
||1913: Rose Pauline Peltesohn born ... mathematician. She solved the Difference Problems of Lothar Heffter (de) (1896) in combinatorics in 1939. Pic. | ||1913: Rose Pauline Peltesohn born ... mathematician. She solved the Difference Problems of Lothar Heffter (de) (1896) in combinatorics in 1939. Pic. | ||
||1916: Ephraim Katzir born ... biophysicist and politician, 4th President of Israel. | ||1916: Ephraim Katzir born ... biophysicist and politician, 4th President of Israel. Pic. | ||
||1934: Aristarkh Apollonovich Belopolsky dies ... Russian astronomer. Pic: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Aristarkh_Apollonovich_Belopolsky.html | ||1934: Aristarkh Apollonovich Belopolsky dies ... Russian astronomer. Pic: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Aristarkh_Apollonovich_Belopolsky.html | ||
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||1935: Petr Vopěnka born ... mathematician. In the early seventies, he developed alternative set theory. He will be known for Vopěnka's principle. Pic. | ||1935: Petr Vopěnka born ... mathematician. In the early seventies, he developed alternative set theory. He will be known for Vopěnka's principle. Pic. | ||
||1938: Joseph Strauss dies ... engineer, co designed The Golden Gate Bridge. | ||1938: Joseph Strauss dies ... engineer, co designed The Golden Gate Bridge. Pic (statue). | ||
||1942: Alfred Jacobus (Alf) van der Poorten born ... number theorist. Pic. | ||1942: Alfred Jacobus (Alf) van der Poorten born ... number theorist. Pic. | ||
||1946: Bruno Tesch dies ... chemist and businessman. | ||1946: Bruno Tesch dies ... chemist and businessman. Pic. | ||
||1947: Frederick Gowland Hopkins dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1947: Frederick Gowland Hopkins dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1956: Operation Mosaic was a series of two British nuclear tests conducted in the Monte Bello Islands in Western Australia on 16 May and 19 June 1956. Pic. | ||1956: Operation Mosaic was a series of two British nuclear tests conducted in the Monte Bello Islands in Western Australia on 16 May and 19 June 1956. Pic. | ||
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||2011: STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour. | ||2011: STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour. | ||
||2013: Heinrich Rohrer dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||2013: Heinrich Rohrer dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] wins Pulitzer Prize for "unique and peerless accomplishments in four-dimensional photography." | File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] wins Pulitzer Prize for "unique and peerless accomplishments in four-dimensional photography." | ||
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1522: Mathematician Johannes Stöffler uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and preventprevent Crimes against mathematical constants.
1718: Mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian Maria Gaetana Agnesi born. She will write the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus.
1830: Mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier dies. He initiated the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations.
1888: The Orcagna scrying engine previews Nikola Tesla's speech on alternating current technology.
1888: Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
1968: Mathematician and crime-fighter Jacques-Louis Lions publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use partial differential equations and stochastic control to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola wins Pulitzer Prize for "unique and peerless accomplishments in four-dimensional photography."
2019: Green Ring voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.