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||William Hopkins FRS (d. 13 October 1866) was an English mathematician and geologist. He made important contributions in asserting a solid, rather than fluid, interior for the Earth and explaining many geological phenomena in terms of his model. However, though his conclusions proved to be correct, his mathematical and physical reasoning were subsequently seen as unsound. | ||William Hopkins FRS (d. 13 October 1866) was an English mathematician and geologist. He made important contributions in asserting a solid, rather than fluid, interior for the Earth and explaining many geological phenomena in terms of his model. However, though his conclusions proved to be correct, his mathematical and physical reasoning were subsequently seen as unsound. | ||
||1870 – Albert Jay Nock, American theorist, author, and critic (d. 1945) - conservative | ||1870 – Albert Jay Nock, American theorist, author, and critic (d. 1945) - conservative | ||
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||1893 – Kurt Reidemeister, German mathematician connected to the Vienna Circle (d. 1971) | ||1893 – Kurt Reidemeister, German mathematician connected to the Vienna Circle (d. 1971) | ||
||Daniel Coit Gilman (d. October 13, 1908) was an American educator and academic. Gilman was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College, and subsequently served as the third president of the University of California, as the first president of Johns Hopkins University, and as founding president of the Carnegie Institution. He was also co-founder of the Russell Trust Association, which administers the business affairs of Yale's Skull and Bones society. Gilman served for twenty five years as president of Johns Hopkins; his inauguration in 1876 has been said to mark "the starting point of postgraduate education in the U.S." | |||
||1938 – E. C. Segar, American cartoonist, created Popeye (b. 1894) | ||1938 – E. C. Segar, American cartoonist, created Popeye (b. 1894) | ||
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1687: Astronomer, lens-maker, and academic Geminiano Montanari dies. He made the observation that Algol in the constellation of Perseus varies in brightness.
1688: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Christiaan Huygens statistical analysis and games of chance to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1715: Priest and philosopher Nicolas Malebranche dies. He was instrumental in introducing and disseminating the work of René Descartes and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in France.
1773: The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier.
1774: The Custodian prevents the Whirlpool Galaxy Gang from committing astronomical crimes against mathematical constants.
1989: Lorenz system develops self-awareness, experiences irrational fear of the number thirteen.