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File:René Descartes.jpg|link=René Descartes (nonfiction)|1596: Mathematician and philosopher [[René Descartes (nonfiction)|René Descartes]] born. | File:René Descartes.jpg|link=René Descartes (nonfiction)|1596: Mathematician and philosopher [[René Descartes (nonfiction)|René Descartes]] born. Descartes will be remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy. | ||
||1644: Henry Winstanley born ... painter and engineer. Pic. | ||1644: Henry Winstanley born ... painter and engineer. Pic. | ||
File:Etienne Bezout.jpg|link=Étienne Bézout (nonfiction)|1730: Mathematician and theorist [[Étienne Bézout (nonfiction)|Étienne Bézout]] born. | File:Etienne Bezout.jpg|link=Étienne Bézout (nonfiction)|1730: Mathematician and theorist [[Étienne Bézout (nonfiction)|Étienne Bézout]] born. Bezout's ''Théorie générale des équations algébriques'' will contain much new and valuable matter on the theory of elimination and symmetrical functions of the roots of an equation. | ||
||1777: Charles Cagniard de la Tour born ... physicist and engineer. Pic search | ||1777: Charles Cagniard de la Tour born ... physicist and engineer. Pic search. | ||
||1806: Thomas Penyngton Kirkman born ... mathematician and ordained minister of the Church of England. Pic: https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kirkman | ||1806: Thomas Penyngton Kirkman born ... mathematician and ordained minister of the Church of England. Pic: https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kirkman | ||
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||1875: Friedrich Julius Richelot ... mathematician. Richelot authored numerous publications in German, French and Latin, among them — with his 1832 dissertation — the first known guide to the Euclidean construction of the regular 257-gon with compass and straightedge. Pic. | ||1875: Friedrich Julius Richelot ... mathematician. Richelot authored numerous publications in German, French and Latin, among them — with his 1832 dissertation — the first known guide to the Euclidean construction of the regular 257-gon with compass and straightedge. Pic. | ||
File:Antoine Augustin Cournot.jpg|link=Antoine Augustin Cournot (nonfiction)|1877: Mathematician and philosopher [[Antoine Augustin Cournot (nonfiction)|Antoine Augustin Cournot]] dies. | File:Antoine Augustin Cournot.jpg|link=Antoine Augustin Cournot (nonfiction)|1877: Mathematician and philosopher [[Antoine Augustin Cournot (nonfiction)|Antoine Augustin Cournot]] dies. Cournot introduced the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis. | ||
||1884: Adriaan van Maanen born ... astronomer and academic. Van Maanen is well known for his astrometric measurements of internal motions in spiral nebulae; ultimately his data was found to contain serious errors. Pic. | ||1884: Adriaan van Maanen born ... astronomer and academic. Van Maanen is well known for his astrometric measurements of internal motions in spiral nebulae; ultimately his data was found to contain serious errors. Pic. | ||
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||1997: Lyman Strong Spitzer, Jr. dies ... theoretical physicist, astronomer and mountaineer. As a scientist, he carried out research into star formation, plasma physics, and in 1946, conceived the idea of telescopes operating in outer space. Spitzer invented the stellarator plasma device. Pic. | ||1997: Lyman Strong Spitzer, Jr. dies ... theoretical physicist, astronomer and mountaineer. As a scientist, he carried out research into star formation, plasma physics, and in 1946, conceived the idea of telescopes operating in outer space. Spitzer invented the stellarator plasma device. Pic. | ||
||1998: Michio Suzuki dies ... mathematician who studied group theory. Pic search | ||1998: Michio Suzuki dies ... mathematician who studied group theory. Pic search. | ||
File:Clifford Shull 1949.jpg|link=Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|2001: Physicist and academic [[Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|Clifford Shull]] dies. | File:Clifford Shull 1949.jpg|link=Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|2001: Physicist and academic [[Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|Clifford Shull]] dies. Shull shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics with Bertram Brockhouse for the development of the neutron scattering technique. | ||
File:Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter.jpg|link=Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (nonfiction)|2003: Mathematician and academic [[Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (nonfiction)|Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter]] dies. | File:Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter.jpg|link=Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (nonfiction)|2003: Mathematician and academic [[Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (nonfiction)|Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter]] dies. Coxeter was one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century. | ||
File:Tan Lei.jpg|link=Tan Lei (nonfiction)|2004: Mathematician [[Tan Lei (nonfiction)|Tan Lei]] and crime-fighter publishes study of complex dynamics and functions of complex numbers with applications in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Tan Lei.jpg|link=Tan Lei (nonfiction)|2004: Mathematician [[Tan Lei (nonfiction)|Tan Lei]] and crime-fighter publishes study of complex dynamics and functions of complex numbers with applications in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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Revision as of 07:02, 30 March 2020
1596: Mathematician and philosopher René Descartes born. Descartes will be remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.
1730: Mathematician and theorist Étienne Bézout born. Bezout's Théorie générale des équations algébriques will contain much new and valuable matter on the theory of elimination and symmetrical functions of the roots of an equation.
1861: American Civil War: Union ironclad USS Cairo retrofitted with military scrying engine device which can detect the Confederacy's proprietary Gnomon algorithm functions.
1877: Mathematician and philosopher Antoine Augustin Cournot dies. Cournot introduced the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis.
1967: Mathematician and crime-fighter Robin Farquharson publishes proof that most voting systems are vulnerable to crimes against mathematical constants.
1971: Mathematician and crime-fighter Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter uses his famous loxodromic sequence of tangent circles to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2001: Physicist and academic Clifford Shull dies. Shull shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics with Bertram Brockhouse for the development of the neutron scattering technique.
2003: Mathematician and academic Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter dies. Coxeter was one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century.
2004: Mathematician Tan Lei and crime-fighter publishes study of complex dynamics and functions of complex numbers with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.