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||1915: Fritz Joachim Weyl born ... mathematician. | ||1915: Fritz Joachim Weyl born ... mathematician. | ||
||1916: Ernst Mach dies ... physicist and philosopher. | ||1916: Ernst Mach dies ... physicist and philosopher. Pic. | ||
||1929: Joseph Valentin Boussinesq dies ... mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to the theory of hydrodynamics, vibration, light, and heat. | ||1929: Joseph Valentin Boussinesq dies ... mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to the theory of hydrodynamics, vibration, light, and heat. Pic. | ||
File:Maria Goeppert-Mayer.jpg|link=Maria Goeppert-Mayer (nonfiction)|1937: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Maria Goeppert-Mayer (nonfiction)|Maria Goeppert-Mayer]] publishes mathematical model for the structure of nuclear shells which detects and prevents [[crimes against physical constants]]. | File:Maria Goeppert-Mayer.jpg|link=Maria Goeppert-Mayer (nonfiction)|1937: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Maria Goeppert-Mayer (nonfiction)|Maria Goeppert-Mayer]] publishes mathematical model for the structure of nuclear shells which detects and prevents [[crimes against physical constants]]. | ||
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1473: Mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus born. He will formulate a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.
1596: Cryptographer and diplomat Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction) dies. The Vigenère cipher was misattributed to him; Vigenère himself devised a different, stronger cipher.
1600: The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
1799: Mathematician, physicist, and sailor Jean-Charles de Borda dies. He contributed to the development of the metric system, constructing a platinum standard meter, the basis of metric distance measurement.
1897: Mathematician and academic Karl Weierstrass dies. He will be cited as the "father of modern analysis".
1937: Physicist and crime-fighter Maria Goeppert-Mayer publishes mathematical model for the structure of nuclear shells which detects and prevents crimes against physical constants.
1965: Extract of Radium sponsors re-enactment of the eruption of Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina.
2016: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco dies. He cited James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who have influenced his work the most.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Alice Beta Paragliding reveals encrypted data "almost certainly related to secret programs within the ENIAC program."
2016: Steganographic analysis of Three Kings 2 reveals "five hundred and twelve kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.
2017: Mathematician and dissident Igor Shafarevich dies. He made fundamental contributions to algebraic number theory, algebraic geometry, and arithmetic algebraic geometry.