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||1955 – Engelbert Zaschka, German engineer (b. 1895) | ||1955 – Engelbert Zaschka, German engineer (b. 1895) | ||
||Grigorii Mikhailovich Fichtenholz (d. June 26 1959 in Leningrad) was a Russian mathematician working on real analysis and functional analysis. Fichtenholz was one of the founders of the Leningrad school of real analysis. Pic. | |||
|File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1963: Red-hot [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|plutonium]] stolen from factory by organized gang of [[math criminals]]. | |File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1963: Red-hot [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|plutonium]] stolen from factory by organized gang of [[math criminals]]. | ||
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1730: Astronomer Charles Messier born. He will publish an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that will come to be known as the 110 "Messier objects".
1796: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse dies. He was the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.
1823: Havelock announces plan to collaborate with David Rittenhouse and Lord Kelvin on building an orrery which models the heat death of the universe.
1824: Lord Kelvin born. He will do much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.
1850: Mathematician and crime-fighter Carl Wilhelm Borchardt publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use arithmetic-geometric mean theory to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.