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||1914: Mark Kac born ... mathematician. His main interest was probability theory. His question, "Can one hear the shape of a drum?" set off research into spectral theory, with the idea of understanding the extent to which the spectrum allows one to read back the geometry. (In the end, the answer was "no", in general.) Pic. | ||1914: Mark Kac born ... mathematician. His main interest was probability theory. His question, "Can one hear the shape of a drum?" set off research into spectral theory, with the idea of understanding the extent to which the spectrum allows one to read back the geometry. (In the end, the answer was "no", in general.) Pic. | ||
||1914: Louis Couturat dies ... logician, mathematician, philosopher, and linguist. Pic. | |||
File:The Eel Time-Surfing 2.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing 2|1916: Well-known illustration ''[[The Eel Time-Surfing 2]]'' is exhibited in Paris for the first time. | File:The Eel Time-Surfing 2.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing 2|1916: Well-known illustration ''[[The Eel Time-Surfing 2]]'' is exhibited in Paris for the first time. | ||
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1792: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright dies. Later in his life Arkwright was known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."
1916: Well-known illustration The Eel Time-Surfing 2 is exhibited in Paris for the first time.
1917: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand Georg Frobenius dies. He made contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory.
1943: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov uses Gnomon algorithm functions to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
2017: Green Spiral 9 "feels more green than ever," according to new chromatographic analysis.