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||1721: John Keill dies ... Scottish mathematician, academic and author who was an important disciple of Isaac Newton. No pic. | ||1721: John Keill dies ... Scottish mathematician, academic and author who was an important disciple of Isaac Newton. No pic. | ||
||1772: William Borlase born ... naturalist, geologist, and antiquary. He will oppress Methodist preachers in his capacity of magistrate: various Methodist preachers were seized on warrants issued by him and press-ganged to serve on ships abroad. Pic. | |||
||1821: Hermann von Helmholtz born ... physician and physicist. | ||1821: Hermann von Helmholtz born ... physician and physicist. | ||
||1834 Astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding dies. He discovered Juno. | ||1834: Astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding dies. He discovered Juno. | ||
||1870 | ||1870: Maria Montessori born ... physician and educator. | ||
||1877 | ||1877: Francis William Aston born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze | ||1880: Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze born ... mathematician, famous for the Tietze extension theorem on functions from topological spaces to the real numbers. He also developed the Tietze transformations for group presentations, and was the first to pose the group isomorphism problem. | ||
||1887: Friedrich Adolf Paneth born ... chemist. | ||1887: Friedrich Adolf Paneth born ... chemist. | ||
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1635: Mathematician, theologian, and crime-fighter Marin Mersenne uses new theory of acoustics to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1649: Architect Inigo Jones uses Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry to design buildings which are resistant to crimes against mathematical constants.
1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1899: Georg Cantor writes to Dedekind, remarking that his "diagonal process" could be used to show that the power set of a set has more elements than the set itself.
1945: Mathematician and academic Stefan Banach dies. He was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
1950: Mathematician and philosopher Kurt Gödel addresses the International Congress of Mathematicians, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on his work in relativity theory.
2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Discovers Time Travel sells for two and a half million dollars."