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||1965: Hubert Schardin Hermann Reinhold dies ... ballistics expert, engineer and academic who studied in the field of high-speed photography and cinematography. Pic. | ||1965: Hubert Schardin Hermann Reinhold dies ... ballistics expert, engineer and academic who studied in the field of high-speed photography and cinematography. Pic. | ||
||1972: S. R. Ranganathan dies ... mathematician, librarian, and academic. | ||1972: S. R. Ranganathan dies ... mathematician, librarian, and academic. Pic. | ||
||1997: William Leonard Edge dies ... mathematician most known for his work in finite geometry. In the 1950s Edge began to explore vector spaces over Galois fields as an entry to finite geometry. Points and lines of finite projective geometry arise as lines and planes in these spaces, and the projectivities of these spaces provide representation of some finite groups. Pic: http://hodge.maths.ed.ac.uk/tiki/William+Edge | ||1997: William Leonard Edge dies ... mathematician most known for his work in finite geometry. In the 1950s Edge began to explore vector spaces over Galois fields as an entry to finite geometry. Points and lines of finite projective geometry arise as lines and planes in these spaces, and the projectivities of these spaces provide representation of some finite groups. Pic: http://hodge.maths.ed.ac.uk/tiki/William+Edge | ||
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File:Dawn spacecraft model.png|link=Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2007: NASA launches the ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' space probe. It is NASA's first purely exploratory mission to use ion propulsion. ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt. | File:Dawn spacecraft model.png|link=Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2007: NASA launches the ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' space probe. It is NASA's first purely exploratory mission to use ion propulsion. ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt. | ||
||2009: Alice T. Schafer dies ... mathematician. As a teacher, Alice especially reached out to students who had difficulties with or were afraid of mathematics, by designing special classes for them. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Alice+T.+Schafer | |||
||2014: Dorothy Maharam Stone dies ... mathematician born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, who made important contributions to measure theory and became the namesake of Maharam's theorem and Maharam algebra. Pic: https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/stone.htm | ||2014: Dorothy Maharam Stone dies ... mathematician born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, who made important contributions to measure theory and became the namesake of Maharam's theorem and Maharam algebra. Pic: https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/stone.htm | ||
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1677: Mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr born. He will publish works on mathematics and astronomy, including sundials, spherical trigonometry, and celestial maps and globes, along with biographical information on several hundred mathematicians and instrument makers.
1737: Physician, mathematician, and engineer Hubert Gautier dies. He authored the first book on bridge building, Traité des Ponts, in 1716, as well as books on roads, fortifications, antiquities, geology, and a first manual for watercolor practitioners.
1783: Mathematician Étienne Bézout dies. His Théorie générale des équations algébriques contained much new and valuable matter on the theory of elimination and symmetrical functions of the roots of an equation.
1879: Mathematician and philosopher Hans Hahn born. He will make contributions to functional analysis, topology, set theory, the calculus of variations, real analysis, and order theory.
1905: The physics journal Annalen der Physik received Albert Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².
1928: Mathematician and academic Hans F. Weinberger born. He will contribute to variational methods for eigenvalue problems, partial differential equations, and fluid dynamics.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1962: Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
2018: Signed first edition of Two Creatures 6 used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly forms a spontaneous transdimensional corporation.
