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||1926 – Harry Houdini's last performance takes place at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit. | ||1926 – Harry Houdini's last performance takes place at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit. | ||
||Paul Appell (d. 24 October 1930) was a French mathematician and Rector of the University of Paris. The concept of Appell polynomials is named after him. Pic | |||
||1932 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007) | ||1932 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007) | ||
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1601: Astronomer Tycho Brahe dies. He will make observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.
1602: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Tycho Brahe's astronomical observations to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1646: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter Evangelista Torricelli his "barometer of the indivisibles", which uses quantum pressure to detect and prevent crimes against physics.
1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi dies. He clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
2015: Steganographic analysis of Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.