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||1995: Raphael Mitchel Robinson dies ... mathematician. He will work on mathematical logic, set theory, geometry, number theory, and combinatorics. Pic. | ||1995: Raphael Mitchel Robinson dies ... mathematician. He will work on mathematical logic, set theory, geometry, number theory, and combinatorics. Pic. | ||
||2001: Robert Alexander Rankin born ... mathematician who worked in analytic number theory. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Rankin.html | |||
||2008: Irene Ann Stegun dies ... mathematician at the National Bureau of Standards who, with Milton Abramowitz, edited a classic book of mathematical tables called ''A Handbook of Mathematical Functions'', widely known as ''Abramowitz and Stegun''. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Irene-Stegun | ||2008: Irene Ann Stegun dies ... mathematician at the National Bureau of Standards who, with Milton Abramowitz, edited a classic book of mathematical tables called ''A Handbook of Mathematical Functions'', widely known as ''Abramowitz and Stegun''. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Irene-Stegun |
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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.
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1860: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.
1880: Thomas Edison receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.
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.