Template:Selected anniversaries/August 4: Difference between revisions

From Gnomon Chronicles
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
No edit summary
 
Line 6: Line 6:


File:William Rowan Hamilton.png|link=William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|1805: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician [[William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|William Rowan Hamilton]] born. He will make important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the [[Quaternion (nonfiction)|quaternion]].
File:William Rowan Hamilton.png|link=William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|1805: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician [[William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|William Rowan Hamilton]] born. He will make important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the [[Quaternion (nonfiction)|quaternion]].
File:André-Marie_Ampère.jpg|link=André-Marie Ampère (nonfiction)|1833: Physicist and mathematician [[André-Marie Ampère (nonfiction)|André-Marie Ampère]] uses principles of electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics", to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:John Venn.jpg|link=John Venn (nonfiction)|1834: Mathematician and philosopher [[John Venn (nonfiction)|John Venn]] born. He will invent the Venn diagram, now widely used set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science.
File:John Venn.jpg|link=John Venn (nonfiction)|1834: Mathematician and philosopher [[John Venn (nonfiction)|John Venn]] born. He will invent the Venn diagram, now widely used set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science.
Line 40: Line 38:


||1948: Mileva Maric dies ... physicist. Einstein collaboration debate, love child unknown fate. Pic.
||1948: Mileva Maric dies ... physicist. Einstein collaboration debate, love child unknown fate. Pic.
File:Solomon Kullback.jpg|link=Solomon Kullback (nonfiction)|1963: Cryptanalyst, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Solomon Kullback (nonfiction)|Solomon Kullback]] visits the [[Nested Radical]] coffeehouse in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]], where he gives an impromptu lecture on the application of data processing technology to the interpretation of [[cryptographic numina]].


||1964: Gulf of Tonkin incident: U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.
||1964: Gulf of Tonkin incident: U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Line 57: Line 53:
||2013: Daniel Marinus Kan dies ... mathematician working in homotopy theory. Pic.
||2013: Daniel Marinus Kan dies ... mathematician working in homotopy theory. Pic.


File:The Shovel.jpg|link=The Shovel|2016: ''[[The Shovel]]'' depicts [[The Custodian]] in the act of reversing contract violations by [[Egon Rhodomunde]] and [[Baron Zersetzung]].
|File:Quaternion multiplication.jpg|link=Quaternion (nonfiction)|2017: [[Quaternion (nonfiction)|Quaternion multiplication table]] sells for five hundred thousand dollars.
File:Fire Dance.jpg|link=Fire Dance (nonfiction)|2018: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Fire Dance (nonfiction)|Fire Dance]]'' reveals "at least five hundred" previously unknown shades of [[Red (nonfiction)|red]].


</gallery>
</gallery>

Latest revision as of 11:01, 7 February 2022

  • 1805: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician William Rowan Hamilton born. He will make important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the quaternion.

    1805: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician William Rowan Hamilton born. He will make important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the quaternion.

  • 1834: Mathematician and philosopher John Venn born. He will invent the Venn diagram, now widely used set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science.

    1834: Mathematician and philosopher John Venn born. He will invent the Venn diagram, now widely used set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science.

Retrieved from "https://gnomonchronicles.com/w/index.php?title=Template:Selected_anniversaries/August_4&oldid=89675"