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||1919: Wu Wenjun born ... mathematician and academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), best known for the Wu's method of characteristic set. Pic: https://www.quantumcalculus.org/wenjun-wu-1919-2017/ | ||1919: Wu Wenjun born ... mathematician and academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), best known for the Wu's method of characteristic set. Pic: https://www.quantumcalculus.org/wenjun-wu-1919-2017/ | ||
||1920: Engineer and inventor Rudolph Vuilleumier dies. Vuilleumier is known for the Vuilleumier cycle, a thermodynamic cycle with applications in low-temperature cooling. No pics online. | |||
|File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1923: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] uses proof that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant, to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1923: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] uses proof that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant, to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear born either today or tomorrow.
1855: Mathematician, circus magician, and gentleman detective Jan Kochanowski uses Nebra sky disk to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1856: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Jacques Philippe Marie Binet dies. He made significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra.
1857: Mathematician Oskar Bolza born. He will be known for his research in the calculus of variations; his work on variations for an integral problem involving inequalities will later became important in control theory.
1907: Mathematician, logician, and crime-fighter Stanisław Leśniewski publishes his philosophy of three nested formal systems and their application to detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1929: Electrical engineer, inventor, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Arthur Scherbius signs the APTO Accords, allowing his Enigma machine to be used for military purposes, while neutralizing their potential for use in crimes against mathematical constants.
1941: Engineer, inventor, and pioneering computer scientist Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
2014: Painter, sculptor, and set designer H. R. Giger dies. He gained fame for his work on the film Alien.
2017: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel escapes from The Nacreum using a surfboard powered by the gnomon algorithm.
2018: Pinwheel Diagram sells for undisclosed amout in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.