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||1980: Former Beatle John Lennon is murdered in front of The Dakota in New York City. | ||1980: Former Beatle John Lennon is murdered in front of The Dakota in New York City. | ||
||1983: Burton Wadsworth Jones dies ... mathematician ... known for his work on quadratic forms. Pic: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8729240/burton-wadsworth-jones | |||
||1984: Vladimir Nikolayevich Chelomey dies ... mechanics scientist, aviation and missile engineer. He invented the very first Soviet pulse jet engine and was responsible for the development of the world's first anti-ship cruise missiles and ICBM complexes. | ||1984: Vladimir Nikolayevich Chelomey dies ... mechanics scientist, aviation and missile engineer. He invented the very first Soviet pulse jet engine and was responsible for the development of the world's first anti-ship cruise missiles and ICBM complexes. | ||
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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.