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||1054 – Hermann of Reichenau, German composer, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1013) | |||
File:Gerolamo Cardano.jpg|link=Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|1501: [[Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|Gerolamo Cardano]] born. He will be one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance. | File:Gerolamo Cardano.jpg|link=Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|1501: [[Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|Gerolamo Cardano]] born. He will be one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance. | ||
||1541 – Paracelsus, German-Swiss physician, botanist, and chemist (b. 1493) | |||
File:Clock Head (da Vinci version).jpg|link=Clock Head|1624: Renaissance-era mechanical soldier [[Clock Head]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Clock Head (da Vinci version).jpg|link=Clock Head|1624: Renaissance-era mechanical soldier [[Clock Head]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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File:Adriaan Metius.jpg|link=Adriaan Metius (nonfiction)|1626: Mathematician and astronomer [[Adriaan Metius (nonfiction)|Adriaan Metius]] demonstrates manufactured precision astronomical instrument which detect and prevents [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Adriaan Metius.jpg|link=Adriaan Metius (nonfiction)|1626: Mathematician and astronomer [[Adriaan Metius (nonfiction)|Adriaan Metius]] demonstrates manufactured precision astronomical instrument which detect and prevents [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
|| | ||1742 – Johann Matthias Hase, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1684) | ||
||1801 – Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and physicist (d. 1862) | |||
||1852 – The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes. | |||
|File:Siegel der Universitat Leipzig.png|link=Leipzig University (nonfiction)|1858: "[[Leipzig University (nonfiction)|Leipzig University]] should include me in seal," says [[Friedrich Nietzsche (nonfiction)|Friedrich Nietzsche]]. | |File:Siegel der Universitat Leipzig.png|link=Leipzig University (nonfiction)|1858: "[[Leipzig University (nonfiction)|Leipzig University]] should include me in seal," says [[Friedrich Nietzsche (nonfiction)|Friedrich Nietzsche]]. | ||
||1869 – "Black Friday": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market. | |||
||1870 – Georges Claude, French chemist and engineer, invented Neon lighting (d. 1960) | |||
||1884 – Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer and engineer (d. 1953) | |||
||1889 – Charles Leroux, American balloonist and skydiver (b. 1856) | |||
||1898 – Howard Florey, Australian pharmacologist and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968) | |||
||1898 – Charlotte Moore Sitterly, American astronomer (d. 1990) no pic | |||
||1900 – Ham Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1955) | |||
||1904 – Niels Ryberg Finsen, Faroese-Danish physician and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860) Light radiation | |||
||1905 – Severo Ochoa, Spanish–American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993) | |||
||1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument. | |||
||1911 – His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, is wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness. | |||
||1923 – Raoul Bott, Hungarian-American mathematician (d. 2005) | |||
File:John Killian Houston Brunner circa 1967.jpg|link=John Brunner (nonfiction)|1934: Writer and peace activist [[John Brunner (nonfiction)|John Brunner]] born. | File:John Killian Houston Brunner circa 1967.jpg|link=John Brunner (nonfiction)|1934: Writer and peace activist [[John Brunner (nonfiction)|John Brunner]] born. | ||
||1935 – Earl and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi. | |||
File:Alice Beta Paragliding.jpg|link=Alice Beta Paragliding|1937: ''[[Alice Beta Paragliding]]'' published. Many experts believe that the illustration depicts Beta infiltrating the [[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC]] program. | File:Alice Beta Paragliding.jpg|link=Alice Beta Paragliding|1937: ''[[Alice Beta Paragliding]]'' published. Many experts believe that the illustration depicts Beta infiltrating the [[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC]] program. | ||
File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] dies. He proved that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant. | File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] dies. He proved that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant. | ||
||1945 – Hans Geiger, German physicist and academic, co-invented the Geiger counter (b. 1882) | |||
||1957 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation. | |||
||1960 – USS Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched. | |||
||1979 – CompuServe launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service. | |||
File:George Plimpton 1993.jpg|link=George Plimpton (nonfiction)|1999: Writer, editor, and actor [[George Plimpton (nonfiction)|George Plimpton]] publishes his account of personally committing [[math crimes]] "for the participatory journalistic experience." | File:George Plimpton 1993.jpg|link=George Plimpton (nonfiction)|1999: Writer, editor, and actor [[George Plimpton (nonfiction)|George Plimpton]] publishes his account of personally committing [[math crimes]] "for the participatory journalistic experience." | ||
|File:Clifford Shull 1949.jpg|link=Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|1964: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|Clifford Shull]] the neutron scattering technique to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |File:Clifford Shull 1949.jpg|link=Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|1964: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|Clifford Shull]] the neutron scattering technique to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1993 – Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1913) | |||
||2014 – Madis Kõiv, Estonian physicist, philosopher, and author (b. 1929) | |||
||2014 – The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), a Mars orbiter launched into Earth orbit by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), successfully inserted into orbit of Mars | |||
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Revision as of 09:44, 3 September 2017
1501: Gerolamo Cardano born. He will be one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance.
1624: Renaissance-era mechanical soldier Clock Head uses Gnomon algorithm functions to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1625: Mathematician and politician Johan de Witt born. He will derive the basic properties of quadratic forms, an important step in the field of linear algebra.
1626: Mathematician and astronomer Adriaan Metius demonstrates manufactured precision astronomical instrument which detect and prevents crimes against mathematical constants.
1934: Writer and peace activist John Brunner born.
1937: Alice Beta Paragliding published. Many experts believe that the illustration depicts Beta infiltrating the ENIAC program.
1938: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann dies. He proved that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant.
1999: Writer, editor, and actor George Plimpton publishes his account of personally committing math crimes "for the participatory journalistic experience."