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||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 | ||
||1831: Fritz Müller born ... biologist who emigrated to southern Brazil, where he lived in and near the German community of Blumenau, Santa Catarina. There he studied the natural history of the Atlantic forest south of São Paulo, and was an early advocate of Darwinism. Pic (nice). | |||
||1831: Archibald Scott Couper born ... chemist who proposed an early theory of chemical structure and bonding. He developed the concepts of tetravalent carbon atoms linking together to form large molecules, and that the bonding order of the atoms in a molecule can be determined from chemical evidence. Pic. | ||1831: Archibald Scott Couper born ... chemist who proposed an early theory of chemical structure and bonding. He developed the concepts of tetravalent carbon atoms linking together to form large molecules, and that the bonding order of the atoms in a molecule can be determined from chemical evidence. Pic. | ||
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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.
1877: Mathematician and philosopher Antoine Augustin Cournot dies. Cournot introduced the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis.
1967: Mathematician and APTO field engineer Robin Farquharson discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm function which detect and prevent crimes against voting system.
1970: The spacecraft Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit. Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by the United States.
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.