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||1960 – Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California. | ||1960 – Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California. | ||
||Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky (d. 16 May 1963), codenamed HERO, was a Soviet military intelligence (GRU) colonel during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Penkovsky was responsible for informing the United Kingdom about the Soviet emplacement of missiles in Cuba, thus providing both the UK and the United States with the precise knowledge necessary to address rapidly developing military tensions with Soviet Russia. Pic. | |||
File:Jacques-Louis Lions.jpg|link=Jacques-Louis Lions (nonfiction)|1968: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Jacques-Louis Lions (nonfiction)|Jacques-Louis Lions]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which use partial differential equations and stochastic control to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Jacques-Louis Lions.jpg|link=Jacques-Louis Lions (nonfiction)|1968: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Jacques-Louis Lions (nonfiction)|Jacques-Louis Lions]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which use partial differential equations and stochastic control to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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1522: Mathematician Johannes Stöffler uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and preventprevent Crimes against mathematical constants.
1718: Mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian Maria Gaetana Agnesi born. She will write the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus.
1830: Mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier dies. He initiated the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations.
1888: Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
1968: Mathematician and crime-fighter Jacques-Louis Lions publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use partial differential equations and stochastic control to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola wins Pulitzer Prize for "unique and peerless accomplishments in four-dimensional photography."