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||1993: Robert Palmer Dilworth dies ... mathematician. His primary research area was lattice theory; his biography at the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive states "it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was one of the main factors in the subject moving from being merely a tool of other disciplines to an important subject in its own right". He is best known for Dilworth's theorem (Dilworth 1950) relating chains and antichains in partial orders; he was also the first to study antimatroids. Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Robert-P-Dilworth/6000000035405400337 | ||1993: Robert Palmer Dilworth dies ... mathematician. His primary research area was lattice theory; his biography at the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive states "it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was one of the main factors in the subject moving from being merely a tool of other disciplines to an important subject in its own right". He is best known for Dilworth's theorem (Dilworth 1950) relating chains and antichains in partial orders; he was also the first to study antimatroids. Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Robert-P-Dilworth/6000000035405400337 | ||
||1996: Richard James Duffin dies ... physicist, known for his contributions to electrical transmission theory and to the development of geometric programming and other areas within operations research. | ||1996: Richard James Duffin dies ... physicist, known for his contributions to electrical transmission theory and to the development of geometric programming and other areas within operations research. No birth date. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Richard-Duffin | ||
||1997: Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos dies ... astronomer and astrophysicist. | ||1997: Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos dies ... astronomer and astrophysicist. | ||
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1675: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
1732: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi is granted professorship in philosophy by the University of Bologna, thus also making her a member of the Academy of the Sciences.
1783: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Jean le Rond d'Alembert dies. He made contributions to mathematics and physics, including D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation.
1965 Oct. 29: Long Shot nuclear weapons test at Amchitka, Alaska. It was the largest underground explosion ever detonated by the United States.