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||1860 – Charlotte Barnum, American mathematician and social activist (d. 1934) | ||1860 – Charlotte Barnum, American mathematician and social activist (d. 1934) | ||
||Charlotte Cynthia Barnum (b. May 17, 1860), mathematician and social activist, was the first woman to receive a Ph.D in mathematics from Yale University. No pic. | |||
||1865 – The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris. | ||1865 – The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris. | ||
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1765: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist Alexis Clairaut dies. His work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687.
1854: Scientist and inventor Johann Philipp Reis uses Gnomon algorithm functions to prevent outbreak of Kingpin inclination.
1902: Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
1973: Watergate scandal (nonfiction): Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
2001: Mathematician Jacques-Louis Lions dies. He made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control.
2016: Math criminal Anarchimedes plans to steal, restore, and weaponize the Antikythera mechanism, warn crime analysts.