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||1859: Pierre Curie born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1859: Pierre Curie born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1862: Cassius Jackson Keyser dies ... mathematician. | ||1862: Cassius Jackson Keyser dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
File:Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery|1864: ''Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery'' incorporated into army medical manuals on both sides of the American Civil War. | File:Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery|1864: ''Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery'' incorporated into army medical manuals on both sides of the American Civil War. | ||
||1891: Fritz Feigl born ... chemist and academic. | ||1891: Fritz Feigl born ... chemist and academic. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Fritz+Feigl | ||
||1900: Ida Rhodes born ... mathematician, pioneer in computer programming. Pic. | ||1900: Ida Rhodes born ... mathematician, pioneer in computer programming. Pic. |
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1579: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke invents new type of scrying engine which pre-visualizes tangents and secants. He will use the engine to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.
1618: Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).
1801: Mathematician Joseph Ludwig Raabe born. He will discover Raabe's ratio test, which determines the convergence or divergence of an infinite series, in some cases.
1836: Astronomer Francis Baily observes "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse.
2017: Three Kings voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2019: New study says that Greedy coloring algorithms "have been systematically corrupted by a consortium of math criminals including Anarchimedes and Forbidden Ratio." (Source: APTO crime report.)