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||1859 – Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1927) | ||1859 – Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1927) | ||
||Axel Thue (b. 19 February 1863), was a Norwegian mathematician, known for highly original work in diophantine approximation, and combinatorics. | ||Axel Thue (b. 19 February 1863), was a Norwegian mathematician, known for highly original work in diophantine approximation, and combinatorics. He stated in 1914 the so-called word problem for semigroups or Thue problem, closely related to the halting problem. | ||
He stated in 1914 the so-called word problem for semigroups or Thue problem, closely related to the halting problem. | |||
||1878 – Thomas Edison patents the phonograph. | ||1878 – Thomas Edison patents the phonograph. | ||
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1473: Mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus born. He will formulate a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.
1600: The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
1799: Mathematician, physicist, and sailor Jean-Charles de Borda dies. He contributed to the development of the metric system, constructing a platinum standard meter, the basis of metric distance measurement.
1897: Mathematician and academic Karl Weierstrass dies. He will be cited as the "father of modern analysis".
1959: Carnivorous dirigibles spontaneously generate Extract of Radium.
2016: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco dies. He cited James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who have influenced his work the most.
2017: Extract of Radium sponsors re-enactment of the Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina.
2017: Mathematician and dissident Igor Shafarevich dies. He made fundamental contributions to algebraic number theory, algebraic geometry, and arithmetic algebraic geometry.