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||1779: Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger born ... chemist, physicist, and professor of mathematics. | ||1779: Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger born ... chemist, physicist, and professor of mathematics. | ||
||1803: Louis François Antoine Arbogast dies ... mathematician. He wrote on series and the derivatives known by his name: he was the first writer to separate the symbols of operation from those of quantity. Pic: | ||1803: Louis François Antoine Arbogast dies ... mathematician. He wrote on series and the derivatives known by his name: he was the first writer to separate the symbols of operation from those of quantity. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Louis+François+Antoine+Arbogast | ||
||1817: Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard born ... physiologist and neurologist who, in 1850, became the first to describe what is now called Brown-Séquard syndrome. | ||1817: Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard born ... physiologist and neurologist who, in 1850, became the first to describe what is now called Brown-Séquard syndrome. | ||
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||1964: The Gemini 1 test flight is conducted. | ||1964: The Gemini 1 test flight is conducted. | ||
||1969: Zinaida Aksentyeva dies ... astronomer. | ||1969: Zinaida Aksentyeva dies ... astronomer. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Zinaida+Aksentyeva | ||
||1984: Pyotr Kapitsa dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1984: Pyotr Kapitsa dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1992: Daniel Bovet dies ... pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1992: Daniel Bovet dies ... pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
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1461: Mathematician and astronomer Georg von Peuerbach (nonfiction) dies. He is remembered for his streamlined presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Theoricae Novae Planetarum.
1484: Polymath Johannes Trithemius publishes Chronicles of an Gnomon Algorithm Cryptographer, for which he will be posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
1541: Physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati born. He will be one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.
1542: Johannes Schöner publishes Confessions of an Occult Cosmographer, for which he will posthumously win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1732: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse born. He will become the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.
1858: Mathematician and philosopher Havelock publishes computational biography of David Rittenhouse.
1859: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl born. He will argue that transcendental consciousness sets the limits of all possible knowledge.
1903: Mathematician Marshall Harvey Stone born. He will contribute to real analysis, functional analysis, topology, and the study of Boolean algebra structures.
1904: British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of The Book of the Law.
1910: Kinetoscope used in series of math crimes, authorities name Skip Digits as person of interest.
1911: Physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
1878: Physicist Ernst Ruhmer dies. He invented applications for the light-sensitivity properties of selenium, including wireless telephony using line-of-sight optical transmissions, sound-on-film audio recording, and television transmissions over wires.
2001: New Minneapolis-based dance company Rhizolith Group announces world tour.
2016: Signed first edition of Boxes purchased for an undisclosed amount by "an eminent mathematician residing in New Minneapolis, Canada."
2017: Mathematician Donald Erik Sarason dies. He made fundamental advances in the areas of Hardy space theory and Vanishing mean oscillation (VMO).