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||1977: Mathematician and academic Robert Schatten dies. He made fundamental contributions to functional analysis, where he is the namesake of the Schatten norm and the Schatten class operators. He also studied tensor products of Banach spaces. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Robert+Schatten | ||1977: Mathematician and academic Robert Schatten dies. He made fundamental contributions to functional analysis, where he is the namesake of the Schatten norm and the Schatten class operators. He also studied tensor products of Banach spaces. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Robert+Schatten | ||
||1987: Georg Wittig dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1987: Georg Wittig dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1992: Daniel Gorenstein dies ... mathematician. He was a major influence on the classification of finite simple groups. Pic. | ||1992: Daniel Gorenstein dies ... mathematician. He was a major influence on the classification of finite simple groups. Pic. | ||
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1713: Physicist, mathematician, and inventor Denis Papin dies. He invented the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker and of the steam engine.
1728: Polymath Johann Heinrich Lambert born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, physics (particularly optics), philosophy, astronomy, and map projections.
1735: Leonhard Euler presents his solution to the Königsberg bridge problem – whether it was possible to find a route crossing each of the seven bridges of the city of Königsberg once and only once – in a lecture to his colleagues at the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg.
1743: Chemist and biologist Antoine Lavoisier born. He will have a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.
1896: Signed first edition of Interview with Wallace War-Heels sells for ninety thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1919: Physicist, chemist, and criminal investigator Marie Curie discovers a Gnomon algorithm function which detects and prevents Extract of Radium outbreaks.
1930: Philo Farnsworth is granted a ptent (U.S. 1,773,980) for his television system . This is his first patent, with a description of his image dissector tube, and his most important contribution to the development of television.
1974: Pilot and explorer Charles Lindbergh dies. At age 25 in 1927 he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris.
1995: Writer and peace activist John Brunner dies.
2018: Blue Foliage 2 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.