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||1547: Rudolph Goclenius born ... philosopher and lexicographer. | ||1547: Rudolph Goclenius born ... philosopher and lexicographer. Pic. | ||
File:Jean-Charles della Faille by Anthony van Dyck.jpg|link=Jean-Charles della Faille (nonfiction)|1597: Priest and mathematician [[Jean-Charles della Faille (nonfiction)|Jean-Charles della Faille]] born. He will publish a method for calculating the center of gravity of the sector of a circle. | File:Jean-Charles della Faille by Anthony van Dyck.jpg|link=Jean-Charles della Faille (nonfiction)|1597: Priest and mathematician [[Jean-Charles della Faille (nonfiction)|Jean-Charles della Faille]] born. He will publish a method for calculating the center of gravity of the sector of a circle. | ||
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||1692: Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials. | ||1692: Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials. | ||
||1697: Francesco Redi dies ... physician and poet. | ||1697: Francesco Redi dies ... physician and poet. Pic. | ||
||1829: Thomas Earnshaw dies ... watchmaker who, following John Arnold's earlier work, further simplified the process of marine chronometer production, making them available to the general public. He is also known for his improvements to the transit clock at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London and his invention of a chronometer escapement and a form of bimetallic compensation balance. Pic. | ||1829: Thomas Earnshaw dies ... watchmaker who, following John Arnold's earlier work, further simplified the process of marine chronometer production, making them available to the general public. He is also known for his improvements to the transit clock at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London and his invention of a chronometer escapement and a form of bimetallic compensation balance. Pic. | ||
||1859: Frederick Peterson born ... neurologist and poet. Peterson was at the forefront of psychoanalysis in the United States, publishing one of the first articles of Freud and Jung's theories of Free Association in 1909. | ||1859: Frederick Peterson born ... neurologist and poet. Peterson was at the forefront of psychoanalysis in the United States, publishing one of the first articles of Freud and Jung's theories of Free Association in 1909. Pic. | ||
||1862: Peter Barlow dies ... mathematician and physicist. | ||1862: Peter Barlow dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic. | ||
||1884: Isaac Todhunter dies ... mathematician and academic ... best known today for the books he wrote on mathematics and its history. | ||1884: Isaac Todhunter dies ... mathematician and academic ... best known today for the books he wrote on mathematics and its history. Pic. | ||
||1870: E. M. Antoniadi born ... astronomer and academic. | ||1870: E. M. Antoniadi born ... astronomer and academic. Pic. | ||
File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1871: Mystic and faith healer [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] invents new type of [[scrying engine]], uses it to commit [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1871: Mystic and faith healer [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] invents new type of [[scrying engine]], uses it to commit [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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||1908: Heinrich Maschke dies ... mathematician who proved Maschke's theorem. Pic. | ||1908: Heinrich Maschke dies ... mathematician who proved Maschke's theorem. Pic. | ||
||1910: Archer | ||1910: Archer Martin born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1911: Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... highly influential theoretical chemist of his time, van 't Hoff was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. | ||1911: Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... highly influential theoretical chemist of his time, van 't Hoff was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Pic. | ||
||1911: Harry Golombek born ... chess grandmaster, chess arbiter, chess author, and wartime codebreaker. Pic. | ||1911: Harry Golombek born ... chess grandmaster, chess arbiter, chess author, and wartime codebreaker. Pic. | ||
||1912: Boris Chertok born ... rocket engineer and academic. | ||1912: Boris Chertok born ... rocket engineer and academic. Pic. | ||
||1913: Mario Pieri dies ... mathematician who is known for his work on foundations of geometry. | ||1913: Mario Pieri dies ... mathematician who is known for his work on foundations of geometry. Pic. | ||
||1914: Edwin J. Houston dies ... businessman, professor, consulting electrical engineer, inventor and author. | ||1914: Edwin J. Houston dies ... businessman, professor, consulting electrical engineer, inventor and author. Pic. | ||
||1915: Gustave Choquet born ... mathematician. His contributions include work in functional analysis, potential theory, topology and measure theory. He is known for creating the Choquet theory, the Choquet integral and the theory of capacities. Pic. | ||1915: Gustave Choquet born ... mathematician. His contributions include work in functional analysis, potential theory, topology and measure theory. He is known for creating the Choquet theory, the Choquet integral and the theory of capacities. Pic. | ||
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||1917: The Zimmermann Telegram is reprinted in newspapers across the United States after the U.S. government releases its unencrypted text. | ||1917: The Zimmermann Telegram is reprinted in newspapers across the United States after the U.S. government releases its unencrypted text. | ||
||1925: Solomon Marcus born ... mathematician, member of the Mathematical Section of the Romanian Academy (full member since 2001) and emeritus professor of the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Mathematics. His main research was in the fields of mathematical analysis, mathematical and computational linguistics and computer science | ||1925: Solomon Marcus born ... mathematician, member of the Mathematical Section of the Romanian Academy (full member since 2001) and emeritus professor of the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Mathematics. His main research was in the fields of mathematical analysis, mathematical and computational linguistics and computer science. Pic. | ||
||1936: The Hoover Dam is completed. | ||1936: The Hoover Dam is completed. | ||
||1943: Alexandre Yersin dies ... physician and bacteriologist. | ||1943: Alexandre Yersin dies ... physician and bacteriologist. Pic. | ||
||1945: First test of the Bachem Ba 349 Natter (English: Colubrid, grass-snake), a World War II German point-defence rocket-powered interceptor, ends in the death of the test pilot, Lothar Sieber. Pic. | ||1945: First test of the Bachem Ba 349 Natter (English: Colubrid, grass-snake), a World War II German point-defence rocket-powered interceptor, ends in the death of the test pilot, Lothar Sieber. Pic. | ||
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|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1950: Cold War: [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Klaus Fuchs]] is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data. | |link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1950: Cold War: [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Klaus Fuchs]] is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data. | ||
||1951: Sergei Kourdakov born ... Russian-American KGB agent. | ||1951: Sergei Kourdakov born ... Russian-American KGB agent. Pic. | ||
||1952: Mariano Azuela dies ... physician and author. | ||1952: Mariano Azuela dies ... physician and author. | ||
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||2003: Roger Michael Needham dies ... computer scientist. Pic. | ||2003: Roger Michael Needham dies ... computer scientist. Pic. | ||
||2005: Sergio Campanato dies ... mathematician who studied the theory of regularity for elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Sergio+Campanato | |||
||2015: Georg Kreisel dies ... mathematical logician. Pic: http://geopolicraticus.tumblr.com/post/112463880322/georg-kreisel-rip | ||2015: Georg Kreisel dies ... mathematical logician. Pic: http://geopolicraticus.tumblr.com/post/112463880322/georg-kreisel-rip | ||
Revision as of 10:47, 14 January 2019
1597: Priest and mathematician Jean-Charles della Faille born. He will publish a method for calculating the center of gravity of the sector of a circle.
1611: Mathematician John Pell born. He will expand the scope of algebra in the theory of equations.
1871: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin invents new type of scrying engine, uses it to commit crimes against mathematical constants.
1893: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
1945: Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition) spends ten weeks on New York Times bestseller list.
1973: The Dark Side of the Moon released. It will go on to become one of the most successful albums ever.
1974: Signed first edition of Humpty Dumpty At Bat sells for five hundred thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against physical constants.
1974: Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
1974: Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and alleged math criminal Skip Digits performs benefit concert to raise money for the seven persons indicted for their roles in the Watergate scandal.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Taffy Bomb reveals "at least five hundred and twelve kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.