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||1870: Maria Montessori born ... physician and educator. Pic. | ||1870: Maria Montessori born ... physician and educator. Pic. | ||
||1880: Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze born ... mathematician, famous for the Tietze extension theorem on functions from topological spaces to the real numbers. He also developed the Tietze transformations for group presentations, and was the first to pose the group isomorphism problem. Pic. | |||
||1880: Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze born ... mathematician, famous for the Tietze extension theorem on functions from topological spaces to the real numbers. He also developed the Tietze transformations for group presentations, and was the first to pose the group isomorphism problem. | |||
||1887: Friedrich Adolf Paneth born ... chemist. He was considered the greatest authority of his time on volatile hydrides and also made important contributions to the study of the stratosphere. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=friedrich+adolf+paneth | ||1887: Friedrich Adolf Paneth born ... chemist. He was considered the greatest authority of his time on volatile hydrides and also made important contributions to the study of the stratosphere. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=friedrich+adolf+paneth | ||
||1895: German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon. Pic. | |||
||1895: German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon. | |||
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1897: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector. | File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1897: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector. | ||
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File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1899: [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] writes to [[Richard Dedekind (nonfiction)|Dedekind]], remarking that his "diagonal process" could be used to show that the power set of a set has more elements than the set itself. | File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1899: [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] writes to [[Richard Dedekind (nonfiction)|Dedekind]], remarking that his "diagonal process" could be used to show that the power set of a set has more elements than the set itself. | ||
||1905: Robert Bacher born ... physicist and academic. | ||1905: Robert Bacher born ... physicist and academic ... one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project. Pic. | ||
||1913: Bernard Lovell born ... physicist and astronomer. | ||1913: Bernard Lovell born ... physicist and astronomer. | ||
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1635: Mathematician, theologian, and crime-fighter Marin Mersenne uses new theory of acoustics to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1649: Architect Inigo Jones uses Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry to design buildings which are resistant to crimes against mathematical constants.
1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1899: Georg Cantor writes to Dedekind, remarking that his "diagonal process" could be used to show that the power set of a set has more elements than the set itself.
1945: Mathematician and academic Stefan Banach dies. He was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
1950: Mathematician and philosopher Kurt Gödel addresses the International Congress of Mathematicians, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on his work in relativity theory.
2006: Flow Chart voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Discovers Time Travel sells for two and a half million dollars."