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|File:Hellschreiber.jpg|link=Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|1930: [[Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|Hellscreiber]] teleprinter system adapted for use with [[Gnomon algorithm]]. | |File:Hellschreiber.jpg|link=Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|1930: [[Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|Hellscreiber]] teleprinter system adapted for use with [[Gnomon algorithm]]. | ||
||Rikitarō Fujisawa (d. 23 December 1933) was a Japanese mathematician. During the Meiji era he was instrumental in reforming mathematics education in Japan and establishing the ideas of European mathematics in Japan. Pic. | |||
||1939 – Anthony Fokker, Indonesia-born Dutch pilot and engineer, designed the Fokker Dr.I and Fokker D.VII (b. 1890) | ||1939 – Anthony Fokker, Indonesia-born Dutch pilot and engineer, designed the Fokker Dr.I and Fokker D.VII (b. 1890) | ||
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1722: Mathematician and academic Pierre Varignon dies. He simplified the proofs of many propositions in mechanics, adapted Leibniz's calculus to the inertial mechanics of Newton's Principia, and treated mechanics in terms of the composition of forces.
1822: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer born. He will design and invent submarines.
1948: Mathematician Wilhelm Ackermann publishes his research on applications of the Ackermann function to detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.