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||1848: Diederik Johannes Korteweg born ... mathematician. He is now best remembered for his work on the Korteweg–de Vries equation, together with Gustav de Vries. | ||1848: Diederik Johannes Korteweg born ... mathematician. He is now best remembered for his work on the Korteweg–de Vries equation, together with Gustav de Vries. | ||
||1847: Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev ... mathematician and theorist. | ||1847: Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic. | ||
||1850: Charles Doolittle Walcott born ... paleontologist, administrator of the Smithsonian Institution from 1907 to 1927, and geologist. He is famous for his discovery in 1909 of well-preserved fossils in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada. Pic. | ||1850: Charles Doolittle Walcott born ... paleontologist, administrator of the Smithsonian Institution from 1907 to 1927, and geologist. He is famous for his discovery in 1909 of well-preserved fossils in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada. Pic. | ||
||1854: Dugald Clerk | ||1854: Dugald Clerk born ... Scottish engineer who designed the world's first successful two-stroke engine in 1878. Pic. | ||
File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1861: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] retrofitted with military [[scrying engine]] device which | File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1861: American Civil War: Union ironclad [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] retrofitted with military [[scrying engine]] device which can detect the Confederacy's proprietary [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions. | ||
||1875: Friedrich Julius Richelot ... mathematician. Richelot authored numerous publications in German, French and Latin, among them — with his 1832 dissertation — the first known guide to the Euclidean construction of the regular 257-gon with compass and straightedge. Pic. | ||1875: Friedrich Julius Richelot ... mathematician. Richelot authored numerous publications in German, French and Latin, among them — with his 1832 dissertation — the first known guide to the Euclidean construction of the regular 257-gon with compass and straightedge. Pic. | ||
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1596: Mathematician and philosopher René Descartes born. He will be remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.
1730: Mathematician and theorist Étienne Bézout born. His Théorie générale des équations algébriques will contain much new and valuable matter on the theory of elimination and symmetrical functions of the roots of an equation.
1861: American Civil War: Union ironclad USS Cairo retrofitted with military scrying engine device which can detect the Confederacy's proprietary Gnomon algorithm functions.
1877: Mathematician and philosopher Antoine Augustin Cournot dies. He introduced the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis.
1967: Mathematician and crime-fighter Robin Farquharson publishes proof that most voting systems are vulnerable to crimes against mathematical constants.
1971: Mathematician and crime-fighter Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter uses his famous loxodromic sequence of tangent circles to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2001: Physicist and academic Clifford Shull dies. He shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics with Bertram Brockhouse for the development of the neutron scattering technique.
2003: Mathematician and academic Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter dies. He was one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century.
2004: Mathematician Tan Lei and crime-fighter publishes study of complex dynamics and functions of complex numbers with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.