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File:Lewis Carroll.jpg|link=Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician [[Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|Lewis Carroll]] born. He will write ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', and its sequel ''Through the Looking-Glass''. | File:Lewis Carroll.jpg|link=Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician [[Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|Lewis Carroll]] born. He will write ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', and its sequel ''Through the Looking-Glass''. | ||
File:János Bolyai.jpg|link=|1860: Mathematician and academic [[János Bolyai (nonfiction)|János Bolyai]] dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry. | File:János Bolyai.jpg|link=János Bolyai (nonfiction)|1860: Mathematician and academic [[János Bolyai (nonfiction)|János Bolyai]] dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry. | ||
||Heinrich Rose (d. 27 January 1864) was a German mineralogist and analytical chemist. | ||Heinrich Rose (d. 27 January 1864) was a German mineralogist and analytical chemist. |
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1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno. He will be burned at the stake.
1931: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll born. He will write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.
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1860: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl detect and prevents crimes against mathematical constants using theory of transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1948: Mathematician, theorist, and crime-fighter Nikolai Luzin uses point-set topology to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1972: Mathematician Richard Courant dies. He co-wrote What is Mathematics?.
1972: Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine counteract effects of Extract of Radium.
2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.