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||1921: Felix Villars born ... professor of physics at MIT. He is best known for the Pauli–Villars regularization, an important principle in quantum field theory Pic: http://news.mit.edu/2002/villars | ||1921: Felix Villars born ... professor of physics at MIT. He is best known for the Pauli–Villars regularization, an important principle in quantum field theory Pic: http://news.mit.edu/2002/villars | ||
||1922: Jakob Rosanes dies ... mathematician and chess player. | ||1922: Jakob Rosanes dies ... mathematician and chess player. Rosanes made significant contributions in Cremona transformations. Pic. | ||
||1927: Jesse Leonard Steinfeld born ... physician and academic, 11th Surgeon General of the United States. | ||1927: Jesse Leonard Steinfeld born ... physician and academic, 11th Surgeon General of the United States. | ||
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1561: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
1655: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant e, and make important contributions to the field of probability.
1918: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor dies. He invented set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.
1931: Inventor Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.
2016: Violet Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.