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File:David Gregory.jpg|link=David Gregory (nonfiction)|1708: Mathematician and astronomer [[David Gregory (nonfiction)|David Gregory]] dies. At the Union of 1707, he was given the responsibility of reorganizing the Scottish Mint. | File:David Gregory.jpg|link=David Gregory (nonfiction)|1708: Mathematician and astronomer [[David Gregory (nonfiction)|David Gregory]] dies. At the Union of 1707, he was given the responsibility of reorganizing the Scottish Mint. | ||
||1731 | File:Henry Cavendish.jpg|link=Henry Cavendish (nonfiction)|1731: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher [[Henry Cavendish (nonfiction)|Henry Cavendish]] born. He will discover "inflammable air", later named hydrogen. | ||
||1837 – Charles Fourier, French philosopher and academic (b. 1772) | ||1837 – Charles Fourier, French philosopher and academic (b. 1772) | ||
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1708: Mathematician and astronomer David Gregory dies. At the Union of 1707, he was given the responsibility of reorganizing the Scottish Mint.
1731: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher Henry Cavendish born. He will discover "inflammable air", later named hydrogen.
2014: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.