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||1867: Mary Acworth Evershed born ... astronomer and Dante scholar. Pic search iffy: https://www.google.com/search?q=Mary+Acworth+Evershed | ||1867: Mary Acworth Evershed born ... astronomer and Dante scholar. Pic search iffy: https://www.google.com/search?q=Mary+Acworth+Evershed | ||
||1870: Hermann Theodor Simon born ... physicist. With Eduard Riecke, he was editor of the physics journal ''Physikalische Zeitschrift''. Pic. | |||
||1873: Mariano Azuela dies ... physician and author ... best known for his fictional stories of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. He wrote novels, works for theatre and literary criticism. He is the first of the "novelists of the Revolution," and he influenced other Mexican novelists of social protest. Pic. | ||1873: Mariano Azuela dies ... physician and author ... best known for his fictional stories of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. He wrote novels, works for theatre and literary criticism. He is the first of the "novelists of the Revolution," and he influenced other Mexican novelists of social protest. Pic. | ||
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||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. Pic. | ||
||1912: Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko dies ... mathematician and historian. | ||1912: Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko dies ... mathematician and historian ... known for his work with Kolmogorov, and his contributions to the study of probability theory, particularly extreme value theory, with such results as the Fisher–Tippett–Gnedenko theorem. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Boris+Vladimirovich+Gnedenko&oq=Boris+Vladimirovich+Gnedenko | ||
||1913: Karl Stein born ... mathematician. He is well known for complex analysis and cryptography. Stein manifolds and Stein factorization are named after him. Pic. | ||1913: Karl Stein born ... mathematician. He is well known for complex analysis and cryptography. Stein manifolds and Stein factorization are named after him. Pic. | ||
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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).
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.