Template:Selected anniversaries/September 24: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 20:28, 13 May 2018

1501: Gerolamo Cardano born. He will be one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance.
1624: Renaissance-era mechanical soldier Clock Head uses Gnomon algorithm functions to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1625: Mathematician and politician Johan de Witt born. He will derive the basic properties of quadratic forms, an important step in the field of linear algebra.
1626: Mathematician and astronomer Adriaan Metius demonstrates manufactured precision astronomical instrument which detect and prevents crimes against mathematical constants.
1934: Writer and peace activist John Brunner born.
1937: Alice Beta Paragliding published. Many experts believe that the illustration depicts Beta infiltrating the ENIAC program.
1938: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann dies. He proved that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant.
1999: Writer, editor, and actor George Plimpton publishes his account of personally committing math crimes "for the participatory journalistic experience."

@@ Line 21: / Line 21: @@
 |File:Siegel der Universitat Leipzig.png|link=Leipzig University (nonfiction)|1858: "[[Leipzig University (nonfiction)|Leipzig University]] should include me in seal," says [[Friedrich Nietzsche (nonfiction)|Friedrich Nietzsche]].
+||Carl P. Pulfrich (b. September 24, 1858) was a German physicist, noted for advancements in optics made as a researcher for the Carl Zeiss company in Jena around 1880, and for documenting the Pulfrich effect, a psycho-optical phenomenon that can be used to create a type of 3-D visual effect. Pic.
 ||1869 – "Black Friday": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.