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||1842 – Susan Jane Cunningham, American mathematician (d. 1921) | ||1842 – Susan Jane Cunningham, American mathematician (d. 1921) | ||
||Eduard Study (b. March 23, 1862), was a German mathematician known for work on invariant theory of ternary forms (1889) and for the study of spherical trigonometry. Pic. | |||
||1868 – The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law. | ||1868 – The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law. | ||
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File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1882: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] born. She will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics. | File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1882: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] born. She will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics. | ||
||Kitaōji Rosanjin ( | ||Kitaōji Rosanjin (b. March 23, 1883) was the pseudonym for a noted artist and epicure during the early to mid-Shōwa period of Japan. His real name was Kitaōji Fusajirō (北大路 房次郎), but he is best known by his artistic name, Rosanjin. A man of many talents, Rosanjin was also a calligrapher, ceramicist, engraver, painter, lacquer artist and restaurateur. | ||
||Hans Thirring (b. March 23, 1888) was an Austrian theoretical physicist, professor, and father of the physicist Walter Thirring. He won the Haitinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1920. Together with the mathematician Josef Lense, he is known for the prediction of the Lense–Thirring frame dragging effect of general relativity in 1918. | ||Hans Thirring (b. March 23, 1888) was an Austrian theoretical physicist, professor, and father of the physicist Walter Thirring. He won the Haitinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1920. Together with the mathematician Josef Lense, he is known for the prediction of the Lense–Thirring frame dragging effect of general relativity in 1918. | ||
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1749: Mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy.
1882: Mathematician Emmy Noether born. She will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
1964: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie uses the wave nature of electrons to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2001: The Mir spacecraft is de-orbited. It had been in orbit for 15 years, it was occupied for ten of those years.
2011: Jean Bartik dies. She was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.
2017: Signed first edition of the "Enter or Exit" sequence from Game of Chance sells for five thousand dollars in charity auction of victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
