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||2013: John Cornforth, Australian-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917) | ||2013: John Cornforth, Australian-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917) | ||
File:Green Spiral 5.jpg|link=Green Spiral 5 (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Green Spiral 5 (nonfiction)|Green Spiral 5]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | |||
File:Weyl semimetal diagram.png|link=Weyl semimetal (nonfiction)|2017: First use of [[Weyl semimetal (nonfiction)|Weyl semimetal crystals]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Weyl semimetal diagram.png|link=Weyl semimetal (nonfiction)|2017: First use of [[Weyl semimetal (nonfiction)|Weyl semimetal crystals]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:The_Eel.jpg|link=The Eel|2018: Mathematician, art critic, and alleged time-traveller [[The Eel]] escapes from the [[Nacreum]], spending less than a day in the top-security transdimensional prison. | |File:The_Eel.jpg|link=The Eel|2018: Mathematician, art critic, and alleged time-traveller [[The Eel]] escapes from the [[Nacreum]], spending less than a day in the top-security transdimensional prison. | ||
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1825: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to compute new family of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1834: Inventor and crime-fighter Charles Grafton Page builds new type of scrying engine.
1835: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey secretly prints first edition of The Adulteration of Bergamot.
1864: Mathematician and philosopher George Boole dies. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.
1865: Mathematician Jacques Hadamard born. He will make major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations.
1932: US Navy raises flock of Carnivorous dirigibles.
1955: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Hermann Weyl dies. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century: his research has major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines including number theory.
2016: Green Spiral 5 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2017: First use of Weyl semimetal crystals to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.