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||1601: Florimond de Beaune born ... jurist and mathematician. In a 1638 letter to Descartes, de Beaune described the first example of the inverse tangent method of deducing properties of a curve from its tangents. Pic, book cover: http://www.librairiedesmaths.com/site/ficprod.asp?IDProduit=1887
File:Montmort - Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard, 1713.jpg|link=Pierre Raymond de Montmort (nonfiction)|1719: Mathematician [[Pierre Raymond de Montmort (nonfiction)|Pierre Raymond de Montmort]] dies. He wrote ''Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard'', an influential book about probability and games of chance which introduced the combinatorial study of [[Derangement (nonfiction)|derangements]].  
File:Montmort - Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard, 1713.jpg|link=Pierre Raymond de Montmort (nonfiction)|1719: Mathematician [[Pierre Raymond de Montmort (nonfiction)|Pierre Raymond de Montmort]] dies. He wrote ''Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard'', an influential book about probability and games of chance which introduced the combinatorial study of [[Derangement (nonfiction)|derangements]].  


||Ole Michael Ludvigsen Selberg (b. 1877) was a Norwegian mathematician and educator.
||1877: Ole Michael Ludvigsen Selberg born ... mathematician and educator.


File:Thomas Reid.jpg|link=Thomas Reid (nonfiction)|1796: Mathematician and philosopher [[Thomas Reid (nonfiction)|Thomas Reid]] dies. Reid believed that common sense (in a special philosophical sense of ''sensus communis'') is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry, justifying our belief that there is an external world.
File:Thomas Reid.jpg|link=Thomas Reid (nonfiction)|1796: Mathematician and philosopher [[Thomas Reid (nonfiction)|Thomas Reid]] dies. Reid believed that common sense (in a special philosophical sense of ''sensus communis'') is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry, justifying our belief that there is an external world.
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File:Red Eyes Fighting.jpg|link=Red Eyes Fighting|1797: ''[[Red Eyes Fighting]]'' "is a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I remember them," says [[Red Eyes]].
File:Red Eyes Fighting.jpg|link=Red Eyes Fighting|1797: ''[[Red Eyes Fighting]]'' "is a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I remember them," says [[Red Eyes]].


||1798 – Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, French instrument maker and businessman (d. 1875)
||1798: Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume born ... instrument maker and businessman.


||Alexandre Brongniart (5 February 1770 – 7 October 1847) was a French chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist, who collaborated with Georges Cuvier on a study of the geology of the region around Paris. Pic.
||1847: Alexandre Brongniart dies ... chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist, who collaborated with Georges Cuvier on a study of the geology of the region around Paris. Pic.


||Fritz Noether (b. October 7, 1884) was a German-born mathematician. Pic.
||1884: Fritz Noether born ... mathematician. Pic.


File:Niels Bohr.jpg|link=Niels Bohr (nonfiction)|1885: Physicist and philosopher [[Niels Bohr (nonfiction)|Niels Bohr]] born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
File:Niels Bohr.jpg|link=Niels Bohr (nonfiction)|1885: Physicist and philosopher [[Niels Bohr (nonfiction)|Niels Bohr]] born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.


||Øystein Ore (b. 7 October 1899) was a Norwegian mathematician.
||1899: Øystein Ore born ... mathematician.


||1903 – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician and academic (b. 1832)
||1903: Rudolf Lipschitz dies ... mathematician and academic.


||Isao Imai (b. 1914) was a Japanese theoretical physicist, known for fluid mechanics and mathematical physics.
||1914: Isao Imai born ... theoretical physicist, known for fluid mechanics and mathematical physics.


||Friedrich Hasenöhrl (d. 7 October 1915), was an Austrian physicist. Pic.
||1915: Friedrich Hasenöhrl dies ... physicist. Pic.


||1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
||1916: Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.


File:Henriette_Avram.jpg|link=Henriette Avram (nonfiction)|1919: Computer scientist and academic [[Henriette Avram (nonfiction)|Henriette Avram]] born. She will develope the MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging) format, the international data standard for bibliographic and holdings information in libraries.  
File:Henriette_Avram.jpg|link=Henriette Avram (nonfiction)|1919: Computer scientist and academic [[Henriette Avram (nonfiction)|Henriette Avram]] born. She will develope the MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging) format, the international data standard for bibliographic and holdings information in libraries.  


||Emil Kraepelin (d. 7 October 1926) was a German psychiatrist ... a founder of modern scientific psychiatry, psychopharmacology and psychiatric genetics. Pic.
||1926: Emil Kraepelin dies ... psychiatrist ... a founder of modern scientific psychiatry, psychopharmacology and psychiatric genetics. Pic.
 
||Sir Harold Walter Kroto (d. 30 April 2016), known as Harry Kroto, was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes.  Pic.


||1950 – Willis Haviland Carrier, American engineer (b. 1876)
||1939: Harold Walter Kroto born ... chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes.  Pic.


||1956 – Clarence Birdseye, American businessman, founded Birds Eye (b. 1886)
||1950: Willis Haviland Carrier dies ... American engineer.


||1959 – U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.
||1956: Clarence Birdseye dies ... businessman, founded Birds Eye.


||1963 – John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
||1959: U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.


|File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1964: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to investigate quantum electronics.  
||1963: John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.


||Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov (b. October 7, 1993) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician and geophysicist known for important contributions to topology, functional analysis, mathematical physics, and ill-posed problems. He was also one of the inventors of the magnetotellurics method in geophysics.  
||1993: Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov born ... mathematician and geophysicist known for important contributions to topology, functional analysis, mathematical physics, and ill-posed problems. He was also one of the inventors of the magnetotellurics method in geophysics.  


||1995 – Olga Taussky-Todd, Austrian-Czech-American mathematician, attendant of the Vienna Circle (b. 1906)
||1995: Olga Taussky-Todd dies ... mathematician, attendant of the Vienna Circle.


File:Worcester Lunch Car Company (Research Division).jpg|link=Worcester Lunch Car Company (Research Division)|2017: The [[Worcester Lunch Car Company's Research Division]] demonstrates advanced [[Flying Diner]] technology, including a new dinner menu.
File:Worcester Lunch Car Company (Research Division).jpg|link=Worcester Lunch Car Company (Research Division)|2017: The [[Worcester Lunch Car Company's Research Division]] demonstrates advanced [[Flying Diner]] technology, including a new dinner menu.


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Revision as of 12:00, 15 August 2018

  • 1719: Mathematician Pierre Raymond de Montmort dies. He wrote Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard, an influential book about probability and games of chance which introduced the combinatorial study of derangements.

    1719: Mathematician Pierre Raymond de Montmort dies. He wrote Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard, an influential book about probability and games of chance which introduced the combinatorial study of derangements.

  • 1796: Mathematician and philosopher Thomas Reid dies. Reid believed that common sense (in a special philosophical sense of sensus communis) is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry, justifying our belief that there is an external world.

    1796: Mathematician and philosopher Thomas Reid dies. Reid believed that common sense (in a special philosophical sense of sensus communis) is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry, justifying our belief that there is an external world.

  • 1797: Red Eyes Fighting "is a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I remember them," says Red Eyes.

    1797: Red Eyes Fighting "is a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I remember them," says Red Eyes.

  • 1885: Physicist and philosopher Niels Bohr born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.

    1885: Physicist and philosopher Niels Bohr born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.

  • 1919: Computer scientist and academic Henriette Avram born. She will develope the MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging) format, the international data standard for bibliographic and holdings information in libraries.

    1919: Computer scientist and academic Henriette Avram born. She will develope the MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging) format, the international data standard for bibliographic and holdings information in libraries.

  • 2017: The Worcester Lunch Car Company's Research Division demonstrates advanced Flying Diner technology, including a new dinner menu.

    2017: The Worcester Lunch Car Company's Research Division demonstrates advanced Flying Diner technology, including a new dinner menu.

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