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File:Thomas Fincke.jpg|link=Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|1656: Mathematician and physicist [[Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|Thomas Fincke]] dies. He introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant. | File:Thomas Fincke.jpg|link=Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|1656: Mathematician and physicist [[Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|Thomas Fincke]] dies. He introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant. | ||
File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1870: Mystic and faith healer [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] [[Time travel (nonfiction)|time travel device]] to commit [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1870: Mystic and faith healer [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] [[Time travel (nonfiction)|time travel device]] to commit [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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File:John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1891: Miniaturized version of [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube. | File:John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1891: Miniaturized version of [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube. | ||
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1899 – Oscar Zariski, Russian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1986) | |||
1914 – The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society. | |||
1919 – David Blackwell, American mathematician and academic (d. 2010) | |||
1967 – Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission. | |||
Revision as of 12:46, 3 March 2017
1656: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke dies. He introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
1870: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin time travel device to commit crimes against mathematical constants.
1890: Time travel device develops self-awareness, visits John Ambrose Fleming.
1891: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
1899 – Oscar Zariski, Russian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1986)
1914 – The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
1919 – David Blackwell, American mathematician and academic (d. 2010)
1967 – Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.