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File:René Descartes.jpg|link=René Descartes (nonfiction)|1596: Mathematician and philosopher [[René Descartes (nonfiction)|René Descartes]] born. He will be remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy. | File:René Descartes.jpg|link=René Descartes (nonfiction)|1596: Mathematician and philosopher [[René Descartes (nonfiction)|René Descartes]] born. He will be remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy. | ||
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File:Antoine Augustin Cournot.jpg|link=Antoine Augustin Cournot (nonfiction)|1877: Mathematician and philosopher [[Antoine Augustin Cournot (nonfiction)|Antoine Augustin Cournot]] dies. He introduced the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis. | File:Antoine Augustin Cournot.jpg|link=Antoine Augustin Cournot (nonfiction)|1877: Mathematician and philosopher [[Antoine Augustin Cournot (nonfiction)|Antoine Augustin Cournot]] dies. He introduced the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis. | ||
||1884: Adriaan van Maanen ... astronomer and academic. | ||1884: Adriaan van Maanen born ... astronomer and academic. Van Maanen is well known for his astrometric measurements of internal motions in spiral nebulae; ultimately his data was found to contain serious errors. Pic. | ||
||1889: The Eiffel Tower is officially opened. | ||1889: The Eiffel Tower is officially opened. Pic. | ||
||1890: William Lawrence Bragg born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate | ||1890: William Lawrence Bragg born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... X-ray crystallographer, discoverer (1912) of Bragg's law of X-ray diffraction, which is basic for the determination of crystal structure. He was joint winner (with his father, William Henry Bragg) of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915. | ||
||1906: Shin'ichirō Tomonaga born ... physicist, influential in the development of quantum electrodynamics, work for which he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 along with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger. Pic. | ||1906: Shin'ichirō Tomonaga born ... physicist, influential in the development of quantum electrodynamics, work for which he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 along with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger. Pic. | ||
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||1945: World War II: A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Messerschmitt_Me_262_Schwable.jpg Pic. | ||1945: World War II: A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Messerschmitt_Me_262_Schwable.jpg Pic. | ||
||1951: Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau. | ||1951: Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau. | ||
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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.