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||1849: Andrés Manuel del Río Fernández dies ... scientist and naturalist who discovered compounds of vanadium in 1801. Pic. | |||
||1862: Eduard Study born ... mathematician known for work on invariant theory of ternary forms (1889) and for the study of spherical trigonometry. Pic. | ||1862: Eduard Study born ... mathematician known for work on invariant theory of ternary forms (1889) and for the study of spherical trigonometry. Pic. |
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1749: Mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy.
1882: Mathematician Emmy Noether born. She will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
1964: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie uses the wave nature of electrons to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2001: The Mir spacecraft is de-orbited. It had been in orbit for 15 years, it was occupied for ten of those years.
2011: Jean Bartik dies. She was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.
2017: Signed first edition of the "Enter or Exit" sequence from Table Manners sells for five thousand dollars in charity auction of victims of crimes against mathematical constants.