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||1914: Lipman Bers born ... mathematician ... he created the theory of pseudoanalytic functions and worked on Riemann surfaces and Kleinian groups. Pic: http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/riga/riga_pages/riga_stories_bers.html | ||1914: Lipman Bers born ... mathematician ... he created the theory of pseudoanalytic functions and worked on Riemann surfaces and Kleinian groups. Pic: http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/riga/riga_pages/riga_stories_bers.html | ||
||1916: Albrecht Fröhlich born ... mathematician famous for his major results and conjectures on Galois module theory in the Galois structure of rings of integers. Pic: https://opc.mfo.de/detail?photo_id=9239&would_like_to_publish=1 | |||
||1920: Thomas Gold born ... astrophysicist and academic. | ||1920: Thomas Gold born ... astrophysicist and academic. | ||
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1592: Giordano Bruno arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds.
1873: Lawyer, translator, and inventor Per Georg Scheutz born. He will invent the Scheutzian calculation engine, based on Charles Babbage's difference engine.
1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician, and crime-fighter Franz Ernst Neumann uses what is now known as Neumann's Law (the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents) to detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.
1930: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis born. He will prove the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients.
1946: The WAC Corporal becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space.
2010: Mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner dies. His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.