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1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno. He will be burned at the stake.
1931: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll born. He will write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.
1860: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.
1948: Mathematician, theorist, and crime-fighter Nikolai Luzin uses point-set topology to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1972: Mathematician Richard Courant dies. He co-wrote What is Mathematics?.
1972: Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to counteract the effects of crimes against poetry.
2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Green Spiral 9 unexpectedly reveals "more than a terabyte" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.

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 ||Sir James Cockle (d. 27 January 1895) was an English lawyer and mathematician. He invented the number systems of tessarines and coquaternions, and worked with Arthur Cayley on the theory of linear algebra. Pic.
+||Erich Ernest Zepler (b. 27 January 1898), later known as Eric, was a German-born electronics expert and chess problem composer. Pic.
 ||Howard Percy "Bob" Robertson (b. 1903) was an American mathematician and physicist known for contributions related to physical cosmology and the uncertainty principle.