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||1824: Even right at the end of his life, former President Thomas Jefferson was still reporting on the current news in mathematics. On this day he writes to Patrick K. Rogers concerning the abandonment of fluxional calculus at Cambridge in favour of the Leibnizian notation. Pic. "The English generally have been very stationary in later times, and the French, on the contrary, so active and successful, particularly in preparing elementary books, in mathematics and natural sciences, that those who wish for instruction without caring from what nation they get it, resort universally to the latter language. Besides the earlier and invaluable works of Euler and Bezout, we have latterly that of Lacroix in mathematics, of Legendre in geometry, . . . to say nothing of the many detached essays of Monge and others, and the transcendent labours of Laplace, and I am informed by a highly instructed person recently from Cambridge, that the mathematicians of that institution, sensible of being in the rear of those of the continent, and ascribing the cause much to their long-continued preference of the geometrical over the analytical methods, which the French have so long cultivated and improved, have now adopted the latter; and that they have also given up the fluxionary, for the differential calculus. " *John Fauval, Lecture at Univ of Va. https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/01/on-this-day-in-math-january-29.html | ||1824: Even right at the end of his life, former President Thomas Jefferson was still reporting on the current news in mathematics. On this day he writes to Patrick K. Rogers concerning the abandonment of fluxional calculus at Cambridge in favour of the Leibnizian notation. Pic. "The English generally have been very stationary in later times, and the French, on the contrary, so active and successful, particularly in preparing elementary books, in mathematics and natural sciences, that those who wish for instruction without caring from what nation they get it, resort universally to the latter language. Besides the earlier and invaluable works of Euler and Bezout, we have latterly that of Lacroix in mathematics, of Legendre in geometry, . . . to say nothing of the many detached essays of Monge and others, and the transcendent labours of Laplace, and I am informed by a highly instructed person recently from Cambridge, that the mathematicians of that institution, sensible of being in the rear of those of the continent, and ascribing the cause much to their long-continued preference of the geometrical over the analytical methods, which the French have so long cultivated and improved, have now adopted the latter; and that they have also given up the fluxionary, for the differential calculus. " *John Fauval, Lecture at Univ of Va. https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/01/on-this-day-in-math-january-29.html | ||
||1827: Eugene Schieffelin born ... belonged to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society and the New York Zoological Society. He was responsible for introducing the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) to North America. No | ||1827: Eugene Schieffelin born ... belonged to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society and the New York Zoological Society. He was responsible for introducing the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) to North America. No pics online. | ||
||1834: US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute. | ||1834: US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute. | ||
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||1859: Seth Thomas dies ... clock manufacturer who was one of the pioneers in the mass production of clocks. After working with Eli Terry and Silas Hoadley in firm of Terry, Thomas & Hoadley, which manufactured clocks by mass production methods (1807), Thomas founded a clock factory of his own at Plymouth Hollow, Conn. (1812). He was not an inventive genius, but he was an excellent mechanic and a keen business man. Two years later he paid Terry for the rights to manufacture the latter's popular shelf clock. Shortly, he was selling as many clocks as Terry. As his business developed Thomas built a mill for rolling brass and making wire at Plymouth Hollow, and operated it in conjunction with the clock factory. Finally, he organized the Seth Thomas Clock Co. (1853). Pic. | ||1859: Seth Thomas dies ... clock manufacturer who was one of the pioneers in the mass production of clocks. After working with Eli Terry and Silas Hoadley in firm of Terry, Thomas & Hoadley, which manufactured clocks by mass production methods (1807), Thomas founded a clock factory of his own at Plymouth Hollow, Conn. (1812). He was not an inventive genius, but he was an excellent mechanic and a keen business man. Two years later he paid Terry for the rights to manufacture the latter's popular shelf clock. Shortly, he was selling as many clocks as Terry. As his business developed Thomas built a mill for rolling brass and making wire at Plymouth Hollow, and operated it in conjunction with the clock factory. Finally, he organized the Seth Thomas Clock Co. (1853). Pic. | ||
||1863: The Bear River Massacre: A detachment of California Volunteers led by Colonel Patrick Edward Connor engage the Shoshone at Bear River, Washington Territory, killing hundreds of men women and children. | ||1863: The Bear River Massacre: A detachment of California Volunteers led by Colonel Patrick Edward Connor engage the Shoshone at Bear River, Washington Territory, killing hundreds of men women and children. Pic. | ||
||1864: Claude "Claudius" Crozet dies ... soldier, educator, and civil engineer. He worked as a professor of engineering at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York; during this time he will (by some accounts) be the first to use the chalkboard as an instructional tool. Pic. | ||1864: Claude "Claudius" Crozet dies ... soldier, educator, and civil engineer. He worked as a professor of engineering at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York; during this time he will (by some accounts) be the first to use the chalkboard as an instructional tool. Pic. | ||
||1881: Alice Catherine Evans born ... | ||1881: Microbiologist Alice Catherine Evans born. she investigated bacteriology in milk and cheese. She later demonstrated that ''Bacillus abortus'' caused the disease Brucellosis (undulant fever or Malta fever) in both cattle and humans. Pic. | ||
||1886: Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile. | ||1886: Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile. Pic. | ||
||1888: Sydney Chapman born ... mathematician and geophysicist. Pic. | ||1888: Sydney Chapman born ... mathematician and geophysicist. Pic. | ||
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File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] dies. | File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] dies. | ||
||1901: Allen B. DuMont born ... engineer and | ||1901: Allen B. DuMont born ... electronics engineer, scientist and inventor best known for improvements to the cathode ray tube in 1931 for use in television receivers. Seven years later he manufactured and sold the first commercially practical television set to the public. Pic. | ||
||1905: Robert Tucker dies ... mathematician, who was secretary of the London Mathematical Society for more than 30 years. Pic. | ||1905: Robert Tucker dies ... mathematician, who was secretary of the London Mathematical Society for more than 30 years. Pic. | ||
||1907: Michael | ||1907: Michael Foster dies ... physiologist. He was one of the secretaries of the Royal Society, and in that capacity exercised a wide influence on the study of biology in Britain. Pic. | ||
||1910: Charles Todd dies ... worked at the Royal Greenwich Observatory 1841–1847 and the Cambridge University observatory from 1847 to 1854. He then worked on telegraphy and undersea cables. Pic. | ||1910: Charles Todd dies ... worked at the Royal Greenwich Observatory 1841–1847 and the Cambridge University observatory from 1847 to 1854. He then worked on telegraphy and undersea cables. Pic. | ||
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||1916: World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins. | ||1916: World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins. | ||
||1921: Geraldine Pittman Woods born ... science administrator and embryologist. | ||1921: Geraldine Pittman Woods born ... science administrator and embryologist. Pic. | ||
||1921: Edward James Hannan born ... statistician who is the co-discoverer of the Hannan–Quinn information criterion. Pic: https://www.science.org.au/fellowship/fellows/biographical-memoirs/edward-james-hannan-1921-1994 | ||1921: Edward James Hannan born ... statistician who is the co-discoverer of the Hannan–Quinn information criterion. Pic: https://www.science.org.au/fellowship/fellows/biographical-memoirs/edward-james-hannan-1921-1994 | ||
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File:Fritz Haber.png|link=Fritz Haber (nonfiction)|1934: Chemist [[Fritz Haber (nonfiction)|Fritz Haber]] dies. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas. Haber also did pioneering work in chemical warfare, weaponizing chlorine and other poisonous gases during World War I. | File:Fritz Haber.png|link=Fritz Haber (nonfiction)|1934: Chemist [[Fritz Haber (nonfiction)|Fritz Haber]] dies. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas. Haber also did pioneering work in chemical warfare, weaponizing chlorine and other poisonous gases during World War I. | ||
||1935: Thomas Tommasina dies ... artist turned physicist who worked on atmospheric ionization and gravitational theories mainly after moving to Switzerland. An experimenter as well as a theoretician, he invented a radio-receiver-like device while studying ionospheric disturbances in the upper atmosphere and used it in long-range weather prediction. | ||1935: Thomas Tommasina dies ... artist turned physicist who worked on atmospheric ionization and gravitational theories mainly after moving to Switzerland. An experimenter as well as a theoretician, he invented a radio-receiver-like device while studying ionospheric disturbances in the upper atmosphere and used it in long-range weather prediction. DOB unknown. Pic. | ||
||1939 J. Robert Oppenheimer hears about the discovery of fission. Within a few minutes, he realizes that excess neutrons must be emitted, and that it might be possible to build a bomb. Fission was discovered on December 17, 1938 by German Otto Hahn and his assistant Fritz Strassmann, but Oppenheimer probably hear about it through the publications which explained it (and named it) theoretically in January 1939 by Lise Meitner and her nephew Otto Robert Frisch. Frisch named the process by analogy with biological fission of living cells. *Wik https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/01/on-this-day-in-math-january-29.html | ||1939 J. Robert Oppenheimer hears about the discovery of fission. Within a few minutes, he realizes that excess neutrons must be emitted, and that it might be possible to build a bomb. Fission was discovered on December 17, 1938 by German Otto Hahn and his assistant Fritz Strassmann, but Oppenheimer probably hear about it through the publications which explained it (and named it) theoretically in January 1939 by Lise Meitner and her nephew Otto Robert Frisch. Frisch named the process by analogy with biological fission of living cells. *Wik https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/01/on-this-day-in-math-january-29.html | ||
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File:Andrzej Trybulec.jpg|link=Andrzej Trybulec|1941: Mathematician and computer scientist [[Andrzej Trybulec (nonfiction)|Andrzej Trybulec]] born. He will develop the Mizar system: a formal language for writing mathematical definitions and proofs, a proof assistant which is able to mechanically check proofs written in this language, and a library of formalized mathematics which can be used in the proof of new theorems. | File:Andrzej Trybulec.jpg|link=Andrzej Trybulec|1941: Mathematician and computer scientist [[Andrzej Trybulec (nonfiction)|Andrzej Trybulec]] born. He will develop the Mizar system: a formal language for writing mathematical definitions and proofs, a proof assistant which is able to mechanically check proofs written in this language, and a library of formalized mathematics which can be used in the proof of new theorems. | ||
||1962: William Francis Gray Swann dies ... physicist. | ||1962: William Francis Gray Swann dies ... physicist. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=William+Francis+Gray+Swann | ||
File:Samuel Eilenberg 1970.jpg|link=Samuel Eilenberg (nonfiction)|1970: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Samuel Eilenberg (nonfiction)|Samuel Eilenberg]] applies the telescoping cancellation idea to projective [[Gnomon algorithm]] modules, revealing new techniques for detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Samuel Eilenberg 1970.jpg|link=Samuel Eilenberg (nonfiction)|1970: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Samuel Eilenberg (nonfiction)|Samuel Eilenberg]] applies the telescoping cancellation idea to projective [[Gnomon algorithm]] modules, revealing new techniques for detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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1688: Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg born.
1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear dies.
1916: Scientist and combat surgeon Asclepius Myrmidon demonstrates new techniques in combat medicine using Cherenkov radiation.
1926: Theoretical physicist Mohammad Abdus Salam born. He will share the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory.
1933: Mathematician and academic Paul Sally born. He will be known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago".
1934: Chemist Fritz Haber dies. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas. Haber also did pioneering work in chemical warfare, weaponizing chlorine and other poisonous gases during World War I.
1940: Alice Beta predicts that mathematician and computer scientist Andrzej Trybulec will make "incalculable contributions to the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants."
1941: Mathematician and computer scientist Andrzej Trybulec born. He will develop the Mizar system: a formal language for writing mathematical definitions and proofs, a proof assistant which is able to mechanically check proofs written in this language, and a library of formalized mathematics which can be used in the proof of new theorems.
1970: Mathematician and crime-fighter Samuel Eilenberg applies the telescoping cancellation idea to projective Gnomon algorithm modules, revealing new techniques for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.