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||529: First draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I. | ||529: First draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I. | ||
|| | ||1658: Juan Eusebio Nieremberg dies ... mystic and philosopher. | ||
||1727: Michel Adanson born ... botanist, entomologist, and mycologist. | ||1727: Michel Adanson born ... botanist, entomologist, and mycologist. | ||
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File:Dave_Arneson.png|link=Dave Arneson (nonfiction)|2009: Game designer [[Dave Arneson (nonfiction)|Dave Arneson]] dies. He co-created the pioneering role-playing game [[Dungeons & Dragons (nonfiction)|Dungeons & Dragons]] with Gary Gygax. | File:Dave_Arneson.png|link=Dave Arneson (nonfiction)|2009: Game designer [[Dave Arneson (nonfiction)|Dave Arneson]] dies. He co-created the pioneering role-playing game [[Dungeons & Dragons (nonfiction)|Dungeons & Dragons]] with Gary Gygax. | ||
||2010: Peter H. Schönemann dies ... psychometrician and statistical expert. He was professor emeritus in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. His research interests included multivariate statistics, multidimensional scaling and measurement, quantitative behavior genetics, test theory and mathematical tools for social scientists. Schönemann was a persistent critic of what he considered to be scientifically sanctioned racism in psychology. Pic: http://ferris-pages.org/ISAR/schonemann-obit/ | |||
||2014: James Alexander "Sandy" Green dies ... mathematician and Professor at the Mathematics Institute at the University of Warwick, who worked in the field of representation theory. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Sandy-Green-(mathematician) | ||2014: James Alexander "Sandy" Green dies ... mathematician and Professor at the Mathematics Institute at the University of Warwick, who worked in the field of representation theory. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Sandy-Green-(mathematician) | ||
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1761: Mathematician, philosopher, and minister Thomas Bayes dies. He is remembered for having formulated a specific case of the theorem that bears his name: Bayes' theorem.
1789: Mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier uses early version of Fourier series analysis to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1811: Astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher Hasan Tahsini born. He will become one of the most prominent scholars of the Ottoman Empire of the 19th century.
1860: Physicist and crime-fighter Ernst Ruhmer invents a camera which uses the light-sensitivity properties of selenium to record images from past and future events. This type of camera is popular with math photographers, notably Cantor Parabola.
1866: Mathematician Erik Ivar Fredholm born. He will introduce and analyze a class of integral equations now called Fredholm equations. Fredholm's work on integral equations and operator theory will anticipate the theory of Hilbert spaces.
1867: Gem detective Niles Cartouchian works with Hasan Tahsini to recover stolen shipment of time crystals (nonfiction).
1889: Mathematician Paul David Gustav du Bois-Reymond dies. He worked on the theory of functions and in mathematical physics.
1899: Physicist and academic Petrus Leonardus Rijke dies. He explored the physics of electricity, and is known for the Rijke tube (which turns heat into sound, by creating a self-amplifying standing wave).
1995: Mathematician and crime-fighter Donald Erik Sarason combines Hardy space theory with Vanishing mean oscillation (VMO); in the process, he will discover radical new techniques for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1995: Math photographer Cantor Parabola takes a series of photographs which capture temporal superimpositions from physicist and academic Petrus Leonardus Rijke in the form of a self-amplifying standing wave.
2009: Game designer Dave Arneson dies. He co-created the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons with Gary Gygax.