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File:Satyendra Nath Bose 1925.jpg|link=Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|1894: Physicist, mathematician, and academic [[Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|Satyendra Nath Bose]] born. His work on quantum mechanics will provide the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.  
File:Satyendra Nath Bose 1925.jpg|link=Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|1894: Physicist, mathematician, and academic [[Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|Satyendra Nath Bose]] born. His work on quantum mechanics will provide the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.  


||1894: Heinrich Hertz dies ... physicist and academic.
||1894: Heinrich Hertz dies ... physicist and academic. Pic.


||1894: Satyendra Nath Bose born ... physicist and mathematician.
||1905: Stanisław Mazur born ... mathematician and theorist ... made important contributions to geometrical methods in linear and nonlinear functional analysis and to the study of Banach algebras. He was also interested in summability theory, infinite games and computable functions. Pic.
 
||1905: Stanisław Mazur born ... mathematician and theorist ... made important contributions to geometrical methods in linear and nonlinear functional analysis and to the study of Banach algebras. He was also interested in summability theory, infinite games and computable functions.


||1912: Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko dies ... mathematician and historian.
||1912: Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko dies ... mathematician and historian.

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  • 1548: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist Giordano Bruno born. He will be burned at the stake (17 February 1600).

    1548: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist Giordano Bruno born. He will be burned at the stake (17 February 1600).

  • 1671: Mathematician Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus removes intermediate terms from a given algebraic equation using Gnomon algorithm techniques.

    1671: Mathematician Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus removes intermediate terms from a given algebraic equation using Gnomon algorithm techniques.

  • 1748: Mathematician Johann Bernouli dies. He made important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.

    1748: Mathematician Johann Bernouli dies. He made important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.

  • 1891: Astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered a "stellar object" that moved against the background of stars. At first he thought it was a fixed star, but once he noticed that it moved, he became convinced it was a planet, or as he called it, "a new star", now known as the dwarf planet Ceres.

    1891: Astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered a "stellar object" that moved against the background of stars. At first he thought it was a fixed star, but once he noticed that it moved, he became convinced it was a planet, or as he called it, "a new star", now known as the dwarf planet Ceres.

  • 1862: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming is appointed to the rank of Captain in the 10th Battalion Volunteer Rifles of Canada (later known as the Royal Regiment of Canada).

    1862: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming is appointed to the rank of Captain in the 10th Battalion Volunteer Rifles of Canada (later known as the Royal Regiment of Canada).

  • 1878: Mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang born. He will invent the fields of traffic engineering, queueing theory, and telephone networks analysis.

    1878: Mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang born. He will invent the fields of traffic engineering, queueing theory, and telephone networks analysis.

  • 1893: telephone switchboard technology modified to send and receive Gnomon algorithm data.

    1893: telephone switchboard technology modified to send and receive Gnomon algorithm data.

  • 1894: Physicist, mathematician, and academic Satyendra Nath Bose born. His work on quantum mechanics will provide the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.

    1894: Physicist, mathematician, and academic Satyendra Nath Bose born. His work on quantum mechanics will provide the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.

  • 1962: Brainiac Explains lecture series wins Pulitzer Prize.

    1962: Brainiac Explains lecture series wins Pulitzer Prize.

  • 1992: Computer scientist and Admiral Grace Hopper dies. She pioneered computer programming techniques, inventing one of the first compilers, and popularizing machine-independent programming languages (leading to the development of COBOL).

    1992: Computer scientist and Admiral Grace Hopper dies. She pioneered computer programming techniques, inventing one of the first compilers, and popularizing machine-independent programming languages (leading to the development of COBOL).

  • 2018: Golden Spiral declared Picture of the Year by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2018: Golden Spiral declared Picture of the Year by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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