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File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1827: Engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] dies. He proposed worldwide standard time zones. | File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1827: Engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] dies. He proposed worldwide standard time zones. | ||
||Konrad Hermann Theodor Knopp (b. 1882) was a German mathematician who worked on generalized limits and complex functions. | |||
||1887 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975) | ||1887 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975) | ||
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1826: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi dies. He discovered dwarf planet Ceres.
1827: Gem detective and astronomer Niles Cartouchian discovers time crystals on the dwarf planet Ceres.
1827: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming dies. He proposed worldwide standard time zones.
1932: Inventor Reginald Fessenden dies. He performed pioneering experiments in radio, including the use of continuous waves and the early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music.
1962: Engineer, pilot, and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt tries to warn NASA that Mariner 1 has been targeted by math criminals.
1962: Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
2017: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.