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File:Inigo Jones.jpg|link=Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|1573: Architect [[Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|Inigo Jones]] born. He will be one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ [[Vitruvius (nonfiction)|Vitruvian]] rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings. | File:Inigo Jones.jpg|link=Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|1573: Architect [[Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|Inigo Jones]] born. He will be one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ [[Vitruvius (nonfiction)|Vitruvian]] rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings. | ||
||Gabrio Piola (b. 15 July 1794) was an Italian mathematician and physicist, | ||Gabrio Piola (b. 15 July 1794) was an Italian mathematician and physicist, member of the Lombardo Institute of Science, Letters and Arts. He studied in particular the mechanics of the continuous, linking his name to the tensors called Piola-Kirchhoff. Pic. | ||
||1799 – The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign. | ||1799 – The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign. | ||
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File:The Governess.jpg|link=The Governess|1866: Social activist and alleged superhero [[The Governess]] chastises [[math criminals]], shames them into returning stolen digits. | File:The Governess.jpg|link=The Governess|1866: Social activist and alleged superhero [[The Governess]] chastises [[math criminals]], shames them into returning stolen digits. | ||
||Max Ernst August Bodenstein (b. July 15, 1871) was a German physical chemist known for his work in chemical kinetics. He was first to postulate a chain reaction mechanism and that explosions are branched chain reactions, later applied to the atomic bomb. Pic. | |||
||Adolph-Andrei Pavlovich Yushkevich (b. 15 July 1906) was a Soviet historian of mathematics, leading expert in medieval mathematics of the East and the work of Leonhard Euler. Pic. | ||Adolph-Andrei Pavlovich Yushkevich (b. 15 July 1906) was a Soviet historian of mathematics, leading expert in medieval mathematics of the East and the work of Leonhard Euler. Pic. | ||
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998: Mathematician and astronomer Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī dies. His Almagest was widely read by medieval Arabic astronomers in the centuries after his death.
1188: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1573: Architect Inigo Jones born. He will be one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.
1864: Adventurer and alleged time-travelling "Pirate of the Prairies" Wallace War-Heels defeats Baron Zersetzung in single combat.
1865: Mathematician Wilhelm Wirtinger born. He will contribute to complex analysis, geometry, algebra, number theory, Lie groups and knot theory.
1866: Social activist and alleged superhero The Governess chastises math criminals, shames them into returning stolen digits.
2013: Computer scientist and academic John T. Riedl dies. He was a founder of the field of recommender systems, social computing, and interactive intelligent user interface systems.