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||1903: Luigi Cremona dies ... mathematician. His life was devoted to the study of geometry and reforming advanced mathematical teaching in Italy. His reputation mainly rests on his ''Introduzione ad una teoria geometrica delle curve piane''. He notably enriched our knowledge of algebraic curves and algebraic surfaces. Pic. | ||1903: Luigi Cremona dies ... mathematician. His life was devoted to the study of geometry and reforming advanced mathematical teaching in Italy. His reputation mainly rests on his ''Introduzione ad una teoria geometrica delle curve piane''. He notably enriched our knowledge of algebraic curves and algebraic surfaces. Pic. | ||
||1909: Ludwig Roth born . | File:Ludwig Roth - 1960.jpg|link=Ludwig Roth (nonfiction)|1909: Aerospace engineer and weapons designer [[Ludwig Roth (nonfiction)|Ludwig Roth]] born. During World War II, Roth will head Germany's Future Projects Office, which will design the ''Wasserfall'' and rockets such as the A9/A10 ICBM. Roth will then be recruited by American intelligence under Operation Paperclip. | ||
||1924: Friedrich L. Bauer born ... mathematician, computer scientist, and academic. Pic. | ||1924: Friedrich L. Bauer born ... mathematician, computer scientist, and academic. Pic. | ||
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940: Mathematician and astronomer Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī born. His Almagest will be widely read by medieval Arabic astronomers in the centuries after his death.
1278: Mathematician Yang Hui uses his famous Triangle to defeat the Forbidden ratio in single combat.
1793: French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
1836: Physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère dies. He was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics".
1909: Aerospace engineer and weapons designer Ludwig Roth born. During World War II, Roth will head Germany's Future Projects Office, which will design the Wasserfall and rockets such as the A9/A10 ICBM. Roth will then be recruited by American intelligence under Operation Paperclip.
1972: Rhizolith Group debuts new work based on the history of high-energy literature.
2018: Chromatographic analysis of Purple Racer reveals "at least five, perhaps as many as nine" previously unknown shades of violet.