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||1995: Thomas Brooke Benjamin dies ... mathematical physicist and mathematician, best known for his work in mathematical analysis and fluid mechanics, especially in applications of nonlinear differential equations. Pic. | ||1995: Thomas Brooke Benjamin dies ... mathematical physicist and mathematician, best known for his work in mathematical analysis and fluid mechanics, especially in applications of nonlinear differential equations. Pic. | ||
File:Rabbi Dr. Eliezer (Leon) Ehrenpreis.jpg|link=Leon Ehrenpreis (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi [[Leon Ehrenpreis (nonfiction)|Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis]] dies. He proved the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients. | |||
||2013: David Rees dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||2013: David Rees dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||
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||2015: Jacob Bekenstein dies ... theoretical physicist, astronomer, and academic ... made fundamental contributions to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between information and gravitation. | ||2015: Jacob Bekenstein dies ... theoretical physicist, astronomer, and academic ... made fundamental contributions to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between information and gravitation. | ||
File:GW170817_spectrograms.png| | File:GW170817_spectrograms.png|link=GW170817 (nonfiction)|2017: The upcoming observation of the [[GW170817 (nonfiction)|GW170817]] gravitational wave signal, a significant breakthrough for multi-messenger astronomy, is allegedly hijacked before it can occur by a [[Crimes against astronomical constants|criminal transdimensional corporation]]. An emergency response team of police astronomers and high-energy physicists will locate the corporation and reverse the hijacking, causing the wave and its observation to occur on time. | ||
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1650: Monk, cosmographer, and cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli born. He will gain fame for his atlases and globes; some of the globes will be very large and highly detailed.
1694: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Christiaan Huygens reveals in autobiography that he uses statistical analysis and games of chance to catch math criminals in the act.
1705: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli dies. He discovered the fundamental mathematical constant e, and made important contributions to the field of probability.
1821: Mathematician and academic Arthur Cayley born. He will be the first to define the concept of a group in the modern way, as a set with a binary operation satisfying certain laws.
1898: Mathematician and crime fighter Erik Ivar Fredholm publishes new class of integral equations which anticipate the use of Hilbert spaces in high-energy literature.
1899: Chemist and academic Robert Bunsen dies. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff.
2010: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis dies. He proved the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients.
2017: The upcoming observation of the GW170817 gravitational wave signal, a significant breakthrough for multi-messenger astronomy, is allegedly hijacked before it can occur by a criminal transdimensional corporation. An emergency response team of police astronomers and high-energy physicists will locate the corporation and reverse the hijacking, causing the wave and its observation to occur on time.