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||1923: Harish-Chandra born ... mathematician and physicist who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups. | ||1923: Harish-Chandra born ... mathematician and physicist who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups. | ||
||1932: Anne Penfold Street born ... mathematicians specializing in combinatorics ... author of several textbooks; her work on sum-free sets became a standard reference for its subject matter. Pic. | |||
File:Vito Volterra.jpg|link=Vito Volterra (nonfiction)|1940: Mathematician and physicist [[Vito Volterra (nonfiction)|Vito Volterra]] dies. He was one of the founders of functional analysis, making contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations. | File:Vito Volterra.jpg|link=Vito Volterra (nonfiction)|1940: Mathematician and physicist [[Vito Volterra (nonfiction)|Vito Volterra]] dies. He was one of the founders of functional analysis, making contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations. | ||
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||1996: Lars Valerian Ahlfors dies ... mathematician, remembered for his work in the field of Riemann surfaces and his text on complex analysis. Pic. | ||1996: Lars Valerian Ahlfors dies ... mathematician, remembered for his work in the field of Riemann surfaces and his text on complex analysis. Pic. | ||
||Edwin Henry Spanier | ||1996: Edwin Henry Spanier dies ... mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley, working in algebraic topology. He co-invented Spanier–Whitehead duality and Alexander–Spanier cohomology, and wrote what was for a long time the standard textbook on algebraic topology | ||
||2001 | ||2001: The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection. | ||
File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|2002: Gem detective and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] accuses actor-crytographer [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|Niles Cartouchian]] of trafficking in illegal [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals]]. | File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|2002: Gem detective and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] accuses actor-crytographer [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|Niles Cartouchian]] of trafficking in illegal [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals]]. | ||
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1708: Mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus dies. He invented the Tschirnhaus transformation, by which certain intermediate terms are removed from a given algebraic equation.
1851: Famed gem detective and crime-fighter Niles Cartouchian (1900s) accuses rival gem detective Egon Rhodomunde of trafficking in illegal time crystals.
1889: Physicist and brewer James Prescott Joule dies. He studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work.
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1940: Mathematician and physicist Vito Volterra dies. He was one of the founders of functional analysis, making contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations.
1965: Documentary photography and photojournalist Dorothea Lange dies.
2002: Gem detective and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde accuses actor-crytographer Niles Cartouchian of trafficking in illegal time crystals.