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||1735: Gregorio Fontana born ... mathematician. He was chair of mathematics at the university of Pavia succeeding Roger Joseph Boscovich. He has been credited with the introduction of polar coordinates. | ||1735: Gregorio Fontana born ... mathematician. He was chair of mathematics at the university of Pavia succeeding Roger Joseph Boscovich. He has been credited with the introduction of polar coordinates. | ||
||1805: Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin born ... magician, the "Father of Modern Conjuring". Pic. | |||
File:Leopold Kronecker 1865.jpg|link=Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|1823: Mathematician [[Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|Leopold Kronecker]] born. His work will include number theory, algebra, and logic. | File:Leopold Kronecker 1865.jpg|link=Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|1823: Mathematician [[Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|Leopold Kronecker]] born. His work will include number theory, algebra, and logic. | ||
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903: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi born. He will publish his Book of Fixed Stars in 964.
1823: Mathematician Leopold Kronecker born. His work will include number theory, algebra, and logic.
1929: Mathematician, physicist, and APTO philosopher Hermann Weyl uses fermions (now known as Weyl semimetals) to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.
1944: Pioneering computer scientist and programmer Betty Holberton programs the ENIAC computer to confirm the APTO Accords, a landmark accomplishment in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1963: Instant replay makes its debut during the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
1979: Astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin dies. Her doctoral thesis established that hydrogen is the overwhelming constituent of stars, and accordingly the most abundant element in the universe.
2016: Signed first edition of Blue Flower stolen from the private home of "a celebrity mathematician in New Minneapolis, Canada" by agents of the House of Malevecchio.