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||1900: Otto Soglow born ... cartoonist. Pic. | ||1900: Otto Soglow born ... cartoonist. Pic. | ||
||1907: Pierre | ||1907: Pierre Janssen dies ... astronomer who, along with English scientist Joseph Norman Lockyer, is credited with discovering the gaseous nature of the solar chromosphere, and with some justification the element helium. Pic. | ||
||1908: Hugo Hadwiger dies ... mathematician, known for his work in geometry, combinatorics, and cryptography. Pic. | ||1908: Hugo Hadwiger dies ... mathematician, known for his work in geometry, combinatorics, and cryptography. Pic. | ||
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1722: Mathematician and academic Pierre Varignon dies. He simplified the proofs of many propositions in mechanics, adapted Leibniz's calculus to the inertial mechanics of Newton's Principia, and treated mechanics in terms of the composition of forces.
1822: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer born. He will design and invent submarines.
1948: Mathematician Wilhelm Ackermann publishes his research on applications of the Ackermann function to detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
2016: Signed first edition of Blue City Sunset purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a well-known mathematician residing in New Minneapolis, Canada."