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||1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered". | ||1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered". | ||
||Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick John Marrian Stratton(b. 16 October 1881) was a British astrophysicist, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge from 1928 to 1947 and a decorated British Army officer. Cool pic. | |||
||1918 – Abraham Nemeth, American mathematician and academic (d. 2013) | ||1918 – Abraham Nemeth, American mathematician and academic (d. 2013) | ||
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1584: Famed illustration Leonardo Draws Clock Head is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I remember them", says artist, inventor, and math detective Leonardo da Vinci.
1655: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo dies. His Elim (Palms) deals with astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.
1843: Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
2017: Quaternion multiplication table sells for six million dollars.