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File:Marin Mersenne.jpg|link=Marin Mersenne (nonfiction)|1648: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher [[Marin Mersenne (nonfiction)|Marin Mersenne]] dies. He is remembered as the "father of acoustics". | File:Marin Mersenne.jpg|link=Marin Mersenne (nonfiction)|1648: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher [[Marin Mersenne (nonfiction)|Marin Mersenne]] dies. He is remembered as the "father of acoustics". | ||
File:Inigo Jones.jpg|link=Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|1649: Architect [[Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|Inigo Jones]] uses [[Vitruvius (nonfiction)|Vitruvian]] rules of proportion and symmetry to design buildings which are resistant to [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||1654 – Ole Worm, Danish physician and historian (b. 1588) | ||1654 – Ole Worm, Danish physician and historian (b. 1588) | ||
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1648: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne dies. He is remembered as the "father of acoustics".
1649: Architect Inigo Jones uses Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry to design buildings which are resistant to crimes against mathematical constants.
1945: Mathematician and academic Stefan Banach dies. He was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
1974: "Hello World" computer program from 1974 warns about the coming of crimes against mathematical constants.