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||1869: The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered". | ||1869: The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered". | ||
||1879: Philip Edward Bertrand Jourdain born ...logician. He took a close interest in the paradoxes related to Russell's paradox, formulating the card paradox version of the liar paradox. Near the end of his life he became increasingly obsessed by trying to prove the axiom of choice, and published several incorrect proofs of it. Littlewood (1986, p.129) describes Jourdain on his deathbed still arguing with him about his (incorrect) proof of the axiom of choice. Pic: http://www.learn-math.info/mathematicians/historyDetail.htm?id=Jourdain | |||
||1881: Frederick Stratton born ... astrophysicist, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge from 1928 to 1947 and a decorated British Army officer. Cool pic. | ||1881: Frederick Stratton born ... astrophysicist, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge from 1928 to 1947 and a decorated British Army officer. Cool pic. | ||
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1584: Famed illustration Leonardo Draws Clock Head is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I remember them", says artist, inventor, and math detective Leonardo da Vinci.
1655: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo dies. His Elim (Palms) deals with astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.
1797: Carl Friedrich Gauss records in his diary that he has discovered a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem.
1843: Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
1868: Physicist and crime-fighter Gustav Kirchhoff uses the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.