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||1390: First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people. | ||1390: First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people. | ||
||1590: Dirck Coornhert dies ... philosopher, theologian, and politician. | ||1590: Dirck Coornhert dies ... philosopher, theologian, and politician. Coornhert is often considered the Father of Dutch Renaissance scholarship. No DOB. Pic. | ||
File:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.jpg|link=Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|1675: [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in [[Calculus (nonfiction)|calculus]]. | File:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.jpg|link=Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|1675: [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in [[Calculus (nonfiction)|calculus]]. | ||
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File:Jean le Rond d'Alembert.jpg|link=Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|1783: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] dies. He made contributions to mathematics and physics, including D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation. | File:Jean le Rond d'Alembert.jpg|link=Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|1783: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] dies. He made contributions to mathematics and physics, including D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation. | ||
||1808: Caterina Scarpellini dies ... astronomer and meteorologist. | ||1808: Caterina Scarpellini dies ... astronomer and meteorologist. Pic. | ||
||1856: Jacques Curie born ... physicist and academic. | ||1856: Jacques Curie born ... physicist, mineralogist, and academic. Together with his younger brother, Pierre Curie, he studied pyroelectricity in the 1880s, leading to their discovery of some of the mechanisms behind piezoelectricity. Pic. | ||
||1866: Carl Gustav Witt born ... astronomer and discover of two asteroids who worked at the Berlin Urania Observatory, a popular observatory of the Urania astronomical association of Berlin. Pic. | ||1866: Carl Gustav Witt born ... astronomer and discover of two asteroids who worked at the Berlin Urania Observatory, a popular observatory of the Urania astronomical association of Berlin. Pic. | ||
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||1878 Patent issued for Odhner calculating machine. *VFR Willigot T. Odhner was granted a patent for a calculating machine that performed multiplications by repeated additions. The patent, a modified and compact version of Gottfried von Leibniz stepped wheel, was acquired and embodied in Brunsviga calculators that sold into 1950s.*CHM https://pballew.blogspot.com/2018/10/on-this-day-in-math-october-29.html | ||1878 Patent issued for Odhner calculating machine. *VFR Willigot T. Odhner was granted a patent for a calculating machine that performed multiplications by repeated additions. The patent, a modified and compact version of Gottfried von Leibniz stepped wheel, was acquired and embodied in Brunsviga calculators that sold into 1950s.*CHM https://pballew.blogspot.com/2018/10/on-this-day-in-math-october-29.html | ||
||1880: Abram Ioffe born ... physicist and academic ... an expert in electromagnetism, radiology, crystals, high-impact physics, thermoelectricity and photoelectricity. He established research laboratories for radioactivity, superconductivity, and nuclear physics | ||1880: Abram Ioffe born ... physicist and academic ... an expert in electromagnetism, radiology, crystals, high-impact physics, thermoelectricity and photoelectricity. He established research laboratories for radioactivity, superconductivity, and nuclear physics. Pic. | ||
||1909: Hans Neurath born ... biochemist, a leader in protein chemistry. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Hans+Neurath | ||1909: Hans Neurath born ... biochemist, a leader in protein chemistry. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Hans+Neurath | ||
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||1910: Dan Pedoe born ... mathematician and geometer. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Pedoe.html | ||1910: Dan Pedoe born ... mathematician and geometer. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Pedoe.html | ||
||1921: Bill Mauldin born ... soldier and cartoonist. | ||1921: Bill Mauldin born ... soldier and cartoonist. Mauldin will gain fame — and two Pulitzer prizes — for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers, as represented by the archetypal characters Willie and Joe, two weary and bedraggled infantry troopers who stoically endure the difficulties and dangers of duty in the field. Pic. | ||
||1922: Rudolf Hoppe born ... chemist, discovered the first covalent noble gas compounds. Pic (with cat!). | ||1922: Rudolf Hoppe born ... chemist, discovered the first covalent noble gas compounds. Pic (with cat!). | ||
Revision as of 18:48, 29 October 2019
1675: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
1732: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi is granted professorship in philosophy by the University of Bologna, thus also making her a member of the Academy of the Sciences.
1783: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Jean le Rond d'Alembert dies. He made contributions to mathematics and physics, including D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation.
1964: Anthropologist, ethnologist, and Gnomon algorithm philosopher Claude Lévi-Strauss is awarded the Anthropologist of the Year prize by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
1965 Oct. 29: Long Shot nuclear weapons test at Amchitka, Alaska. It was the largest underground explosion ever detonated by the United States.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Swamp Thing unexpectedly reveals "at least five hundred, perhaps six hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.