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||1922: André Néron born ... mathematician at the Université de Poitiers who worked on elliptic curves and Abelian varieties. He discovered the Néron minimal model of an elliptic curve or abelian variety, the Néron differential, the Néron–Severi group, the Néron–Ogg–Shafarevich criterion, the local height and Néron–Tate height of rational points on an Abelian variety over a discrete valuation ring or Dedekind domain. Pic: https://ceppp.ca/en/ceppp-andre-neron-1000x1000px/ | ||1922: André Néron born ... mathematician at the Université de Poitiers who worked on elliptic curves and Abelian varieties. He discovered the Néron minimal model of an elliptic curve or abelian variety, the Néron differential, the Néron–Severi group, the Néron–Ogg–Shafarevich criterion, the local height and Néron–Tate height of rational points on an Abelian variety over a discrete valuation ring or Dedekind domain. Pic: https://ceppp.ca/en/ceppp-andre-neron-1000x1000px/ | ||
||1930: G. Gordon Liddy born ... lawyer, radio host, television actor and criminal. Pic. | ||1930: G. Gordon Liddy born ... lawyer, radio host, television actor, and criminal. Pic. | ||
||1934: The LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman becomes the first steam locomotive to be authenticated as reaching 100 mph. | ||1934: The LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman becomes the first steam locomotive to be authenticated as reaching 100 mph. | ||
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||1954: In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space. | ||1954: In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space. | ||
||1958: Jenő Egerváry commits suicide ... mathematician. Egerváry generalized König's theorem to the case of weighted graphs. | ||1958: Jenő Egerváry commits suicide ... mathematician. Egerváry generalized König's theorem to the case of weighted graphs. This contribution was translated and published in 1955 by Harold W. Kuhn, who also showed how to apply Kőnig's and Egerváry's method to solve the assignment problem; the resulting algorithm has since been known as the "Hungarian method". Pic. | ||
||1962: Joseph Lade Pawsey dies ... scientist, radiophysicist and radio astronomer. Pic. | ||1962: Joseph Lade Pawsey dies ... scientist, radiophysicist and radio astronomer. Pic. | ||
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||2011: Robert "Bob" Osserman dies ... mathematician who worked in geometry. He is specially remembered for his work on the theory of minimal surfaces. Pic. | ||2011: Robert "Bob" Osserman dies ... mathematician who worked in geometry. He is specially remembered for his work on the theory of minimal surfaces. Pic. | ||
||2014: Anthony Dryden Marshall | ||2014: Anthony Dryden Marshall dies ... American CIA officer and diplomat. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=anthony+dryden+marshall | ||
File:Green Ring.jpg|link=Green Ring (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Green Ring (nonfiction)|Green Ring]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | File:Green Ring.jpg|link=Green Ring (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Green Ring (nonfiction)|Green Ring]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | ||
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3340 BC: Earliest recorded solar eclipse.
1740: Mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr publishes Atlas Coelestis in quo Algorithmus Gnomonis, his landmark study of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1827: Physicist, musician, and academic Ernst Chladni dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics.
1829: Poet and wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1835: Writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer Mark Twain born.
1888: Electronics researcher Ralph Hartley born. He will invent the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contribute to the foundations of information theory.
1937: Film director and producer Ridley Scott born.
2017: Green Ring voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.