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File:Maimonides.jpg|link=Maimonides (nonfiction)|1165: Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, and physician [[Maimonides (nonfiction)|Maimonides]] condemns [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Maimonides.jpg|link=Maimonides (nonfiction)|1165: Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, and physician [[Maimonides (nonfiction)|Maimonides]] condemns [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1918: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] DIES. He inventED [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]], a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry. | |||
File:John Hoyland Lebanon.jpg|link=John Hoyland (nonfiction)|2015: [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon'' spontaneously generates new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]]. | File:John Hoyland Lebanon.jpg|link=John Hoyland (nonfiction)|2015: [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon'' spontaneously generates new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]]. | ||
File:Color commentators.jpg|link=Color commentator (nonfiction)|2015: [[Color commentator (nonfiction)|Color commentators]] call [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon'' "colorful in a way that defies description." | File:Color commentators.jpg|link=Color commentator (nonfiction)|2015: [[Color commentator (nonfiction)|Color commentators]] call [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon'' "colorful in a way that defies description." | ||
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1165: Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, and physician Maimonides condemns crimes against mathematical constants.
1918: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor DIES. He inventED set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.
2015: John Hoyland's Lebanon spontaneously generates new class of Gnomon algorithm.
2015: Color commentators call John Hoyland's Lebanon "colorful in a way that defies description."
2016: Cold weather depresses Bergamot oil market, industry analysts predict spike in gas chromatography prices.
1838 – Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
1931 – Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.
1561 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (d. 1656)
1807 – Joseph Petzval, German-Hungarian mathematician and physicist (d. 1891)
1689 – Seth Ward, English bishop, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1617)
1852 – Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille (b. 1809)
1918 – Georg Cantor, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1845)