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||1883 – Edith Clarke, American electrical engineer (d. 1959) | ||1883 – Edith Clarke, American electrical engineer (d. 1959) | ||
||1891 – Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian-Swedish mathematician and physicist (b. 1850) | ||1891 – Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian-Swedish mathematician and physicist (b. 1850) Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (Russian: Со́фья Васи́льевна Ковале́вская), born Sofia Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya (1850–1891), was a Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. She was the first major Russian female mathematician and a pioneer for women in mathematics around the world. | ||
||Richard Dagobert Brauer (b. February 10, 1901) was a leading German and American mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory. He was the founder of modular representation theory. | ||Richard Dagobert Brauer (b. February 10, 1901) was a leading German and American mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory. He was the founder of modular representation theory. | ||
Revision as of 18:54, 31 January 2018
1868: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer David Brewster dies.
1900: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
1845: Engineer and physicist Wilhelm Röntgen dies. He won the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays.
1957: Chrome Plover, the famous musical electroplating ensemble, performs new work based on Gnomon algorithm functions.
1962: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
1967: New isotope of Plutonium discovered, revealing secret history of the Manhattan Project.