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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.

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 ||1938: Joseph Strauss dies ... engineer, co designed The Golden Gate Bridge. Pic (statue).
+||1940: Otto Dimroth dies ... chemist. He is known for the Dimroth rearrangement, as well as a type of condenser with an internal double spiral, the Dimroth condenser. Pic.
 ||1942: Alfred Jacobus (Alf) van der Poorten born ... number theorist. Pic.