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||1763: Louis Nicolas Vauquelin born ... pharmacist and chemist. Pic. | ||1763: Louis Nicolas Vauquelin born ... pharmacist and chemist. Pic. | ||
|link=Pafnuty Chebyshev (nonfiction)|1821: Mathematician and statistician [[Pafnuty Chebyshev (nonfiction)|Pafnuty Chebyshev]] born. | File:Pafnuty Chebyshev.jpg|link=Pafnuty Chebyshev (nonfiction)|1821: Mathematician and statistician [[Pafnuty Chebyshev (nonfiction)|Pafnuty Chebyshev]] born. He will prove Chebyshev's inequality (also called the Bienaymé–Chebyshev inequality), which guarantees that, for a wide class of probability distributions, no more than a certain fraction of values can be more than a certain distance from the mean. | ||
||1828: William Congreve born ... inventor and rocket artillery pioneer distinguished for his development and deployment of Congreve rockets Pic. | ||1828: William Congreve born ... inventor and rocket artillery pioneer distinguished for his development and deployment of Congreve rockets Pic. | ||
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1522: Mathematician Johannes Stöffler uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and preventprevent Crimes against mathematical constants.
1718: Mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian Maria Gaetana Agnesi born. She will write the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus.
1821: Mathematician and statistician Pafnuty Chebyshev born. He will prove Chebyshev's inequality (also called the Bienaymé–Chebyshev inequality), which guarantees that, for a wide class of probability distributions, no more than a certain fraction of values can be more than a certain distance from the mean.
1830: Mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier dies. He initiated the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations.
1888: The Orcagna scrying engine previews Nikola Tesla's speech on alternating current technology.
1888: Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
1968: Mathematician and crime-fighter Jacques-Louis Lions publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use partial differential equations and stochastic control to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola wins Pulitzer Prize for "unique and peerless accomplishments in four-dimensional photography."
2019: Green Ring voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.