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File:Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research.jpg|link=Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research|1936: ''[[Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research]]'' wins Pulitzer award for "most prescient illustration of the decade".
File:Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research.jpg|link=Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research|1936: ''[[Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research]]'' wins Pulitzer award for "most prescient illustration of the decade".
||Hans Maass (d. April 15, 1992) was a German mathematician who introduced Maass wave forms (Maass 1949) and Koecher–Maass series (Maass 1950) and Maass–Selberg relations and who proved most of the Saito–Kurokawa conjecture.


||1993 – John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geophysicist and geologist (b. 1908)
||1993 – John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geophysicist and geologist (b. 1908)

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  • 1452: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci born. His areas of interest will include painting, sculpting, architecture, invention, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.

    1452: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci born. His areas of interest will include painting, sculpting, architecture, invention, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.

  • 1548: Writer, humanist, and historian Pedro Mexía appointed consulting crime-fighter to the court of Emperor Charles V. Mexia will discover and expose math crime conspiracy among the Emperor's ministers.

    1548: Writer, humanist, and historian Pedro Mexía appointed consulting crime-fighter to the court of Emperor Charles V. Mexia will discover and expose math crime conspiracy among the Emperor's ministers.

  • 1707: Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler born. He will make important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and will introduce much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function.

    1707: Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler born. He will make important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and will introduce much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function.

  • 1764: Astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow dies. he invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.

    1764: Astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow dies. he invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.

  • 1805: Emperor grants the patent for Jacquard’s loom to the city of Lyon. In return, Jacquard received a lifelong pension of 3,000 francs.

    1805: Emperor grants the patent for Jacquard’s loom to the city of Lyon. In return, Jacquard received a lifelong pension of 3,000 francs.

  • 1854: Scientist and inventor Johann Philipp Reis uses scrying engine technology to fight crimes against mathematical constants.

    1854: Scientist and inventor Johann Philipp Reis uses scrying engine technology to fight crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1926: Aviator Charles Lindbergh opens service on the newly designated 278-mile (447 km) Contract Air Mail Route #2 (CAM-2) to provide service between St. Louis and Chicago (Maywood Field) with two intermediate stops in Springfield and Peoria, Illinois.

    1926: Aviator Charles Lindbergh opens service on the newly designated 278-mile (447 km) Contract Air Mail Route #2 (CAM-2) to provide service between St. Louis and Chicago (Maywood Field) with two intermediate stops in Springfield and Peoria, Illinois.

  • 1936: Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research wins Pulitzer award for "most prescient illustration of the decade".

    1936: Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research wins Pulitzer award for "most prescient illustration of the decade".

  • 2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53.

    2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53.

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