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||1821: Mathematician Philipp Ludwig von Seidel born. He formulated the notion of uniform convergence. Pic: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Ludwig_von_Seidel ... AMA says 23 Oct. | ||1821: Mathematician Philipp Ludwig von Seidel born. He formulated the notion of uniform convergence. Pic: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Ludwig_von_Seidel ... AMA says 23 Oct. | ||
||1825: Carl Anton Bjerknes born ... mathematician and physicist. Bjerknes' earlier work was in pure mathematics, but he is principally known for his studies in hydrodynamics. | ||1825: Carl Anton Bjerknes born ... mathematician and physicist. Bjerknes' earlier work was in pure mathematics, but he is principally known for his studies in hydrodynamics. Pic. | ||
||1830: Marianne North born ... biologist and painter. | ||1830: Marianne North born ... biologist and painter. |
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1601: Astronomer Tycho Brahe dies. He made astronomical observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.
1635: Minister, scholar, astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, and inventor Wilhelm Schickard dies. He design and built calculating machines, and invented techniques for producing improved maps.
1602: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Tycho Brahe's astronomical observations to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1646: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter Evangelista Torricelli his "barometer of the indivisibles", which uses quantum pressure to detect and prevent crimes against physics.
1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi dies. He clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
1676: Isaac Newton summarized the state of development of his method of fluxions and power series in the "Epistola posterior," which he sent to Oldenburg to transmit to Leibniz.
1861: The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed.
2015: Steganographic analysis of Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge reveals "at least five hundred and twelve megabytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.