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||1912: Carlo Miranda born ... mathematician, working on mathematical analysis, theory of elliptic partial differential equations and complex analysis: he is known for giving the first proof of the Poincaré–Miranda theorem, for Miranda's theorem in complex analysis, and for writing an influential monograph in the theory of elliptic partial differential equations. Pic: http://matematica.unibocconi.it/autore/carlo-miranda | ||1912: Carlo Miranda born ... mathematician, working on mathematical analysis, theory of elliptic partial differential equations and complex analysis: he is known for giving the first proof of the Poincaré–Miranda theorem, for Miranda's theorem in complex analysis, and for writing an influential monograph in the theory of elliptic partial differential equations. Pic: http://matematica.unibocconi.it/autore/carlo-miranda | ||
||1912: Luigi Amerio born ... electrical engineer and mathematician. He is known for his work on almost periodic functions, on Laplace transforms in one and several dimensions, and on the theory of elliptic partial differential equations. Pic search | ||1912: Luigi Amerio born ... electrical engineer and mathematician. He is known for his work on almost periodic functions, on Laplace transforms in one and several dimensions, and on the theory of elliptic partial differential equations. Pic search. | ||
||1914: Paul Rand born ... graphic designer and art director. Pic. | ||1914: Paul Rand born ... graphic designer and art director. Pic. | ||
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||1915: A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production. | ||1915: A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production. | ||
||1923: Hans Friedrich Geitel dies ... physicist. Pic search | ||1923: Hans Friedrich Geitel dies ... physicist. Pic search. | ||
||1923: Emik Avakian born ... inventor, disabled assistance. Pic. | ||1923: Emik Avakian born ... inventor, disabled assistance. Pic. | ||
||1931: Richard F. Heck born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... noted for the discovery and development of the Heck reaction, which uses palladium to catalyze organic chemical reactions that couple aryl halides with alkenes. Pic. | ||1931: Richard F. Heck born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... noted for the discovery and development of the Heck reaction, which uses palladium to catalyze organic chemical reactions that couple aryl halides with alkenes. Pic. | ||
||1932: Robert L. Forward dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic. | |||
File:Janet Beta at ENIAC.jpg|link=Janet Beta at ENIAC|1946: Signed first edition of ''Janet Beta at ENIAC'' stolen from the Library of Congress. | File:Janet Beta at ENIAC.jpg|link=Janet Beta at ENIAC|1946: Signed first edition of ''Janet Beta at ENIAC'' stolen from the Library of Congress. | ||
||1951: Sidney Michael Dancoff dies ... an American theoretical physicist best known for the Tamm–Dancoff approximation method and for nearly developing a renormalization method for solving quantum electrodynamics (QED). Pic search | ||1951: Sidney Michael Dancoff dies ... an American theoretical physicist best known for the Tamm–Dancoff approximation method and for nearly developing a renormalization method for solving quantum electrodynamics (QED). Pic search. | ||
||1953: Ludwig Prandtl dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic. | ||1953: Ludwig Prandtl dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic. | ||
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1758: Mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer Pierre Bouguer dies. He is known as "the father of naval architecture".
1863: Mathematician and naval engineer Aleksey Krylov born. Fame will come to him in the 1890s, when his pioneering theory of oscillating motions of the ship becomes internationally known.
1888: Chemist and crime-fighter Robert Bunsen publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on the emission spectra of heated elements which detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.
1891: Signed first edition of Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess sells for ninety thousand dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1892: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie born. He will postulate the wave nature of electrons and suggest that all matter has wave properties, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behavior of matter is first experimentally demonstrated in 1927.
1946: Signed first edition of Janet Beta at ENIAC stolen from the Library of Congress.
1976: Mathematician, academic, and rabbinical private detective Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis uses the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem to break up a transdimensional gang of antisemitic math thieves.
1977: The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.
2015: Author, philosopher, and crime-fighter Umberto Eco publishes influential monograph on the origins and early development of high-energy literature.
2016: Pinwheel Diagram voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.