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||1822 – Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta Stone. | ||1822 – Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta Stone. | ||
||Bernard Courtois, also spelled Barnard Courtois, (b. 27 September 1838) was a French chemist. | |||
||1843 – Gaston Tarry, French mathematician and academic (d. 1913) | ||1843 – Gaston Tarry, French mathematician and academic (d. 1913) | ||
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1737: Mathematician and engineer Hubert Gautier dies. Gautier wrote several published works on engineering, civil engineering and geology.
1879: Mathematician and philosopher Hans Hahn born. He will make contributions to functional analysis, topology, set theory, the calculus of variations, real analysis, and order theory.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1962: Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
2017: The well-known illustration Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery sells for seven million dollars at charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.