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||Arthur Sard (d. 31 August 1980) was an American mathematician, famous for his work in differential topology and in spline interpolation. His fame stems primarily from Sard's theorem, which says that the set of critical values of a differential function which has sufficiently many derivatives has measure zero. | ||Arthur Sard (d. 31 August 1980) was an American mathematician, famous for his work in differential topology and in spline interpolation. His fame stems primarily from Sard's theorem, which says that the set of critical values of a differential function which has sufficiently many derivatives has measure zero. | ||
||John Alexander Simpson (d. August 31, 2000) worked as an experimental nuclear, and cosmic ray physicist who was deeply committed to educating the public and political leaders about science and its implications. Pic. | |||
||2005 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908) | ||2005 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908) | ||
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1648: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne dies. He is remembered as the "father of acoustics".
1649: Architect Inigo Jones uses Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry to design buildings which are resistant to crimes against mathematical constants.
1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1945: Mathematician and academic Stefan Banach dies. He was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Discovers Time Travel sells for two and a half million dollars."