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1776: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Sophie Germain born. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem will a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after.
1890: Havelock survives shootout by shooting first.
1891: Inventor Herman Hollerith uses census data to locate Havelock.
1898: Mathematician and anthropologist William James Sidis born. He will become famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life.
1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.
1973: Mathematician Robin Farquharson dies. He wrote an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as Theory of Voting.
2016: Mathematician Tan Lei dies. She specialized in complex dynamics and functions of complex numbers, making contributions to the study of the Mandelbrot set and Julia set.
2018: Math photographer Cantor Parabola attends Minicon 53, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 52 and 54.

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 ||1865 – Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1929)
-||||Martin Ohm (May 6, 1792, Erlangen – April 1, 1872, Berlin) was a German mathematician. He was the first to fully develop the theory of the exponential ab when both a and b are complex numbers in 1823.[1] He is also often credited with introducing the name "golden section" (goldener Schnitt).
+||Martin Ohm (d. April 1, 1872, Berlin) was a German mathematician. He was the first to fully develop the theory of the exponential ab when both a and b are complex numbers in 1823. He is also often credited with introducing the name "golden section" (goldener Schnitt).
 ||1874 – Ernest Barnes, English mathematician and theologian (d. 1953)
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 File:Tan Lei.jpg|link=Tan Lei (nonfiction)|2016: Mathematician [[Tan Lei (nonfiction)|Tan Lei]] dies.  She specialized in complex dynamics and functions of complex numbers, making contributions to the study of the Mandelbrot set and Julia set.
+File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2018: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] attends Minicon 53, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 52 and 54.
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