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||AD 55: Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome. This clears the way for Nero to become Emperor. | ||AD 55: Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome. This clears the way for Nero to become Emperor. | ||
||1144: The Hellenistic science of alchemy entered medieval Europe by way of the Islamic empire. In his translation of Liber de compositione alchemiae (Book about the composition of alchemy) Robert of Chester wrote the following: "I have translated this Book because, what alchemy is, and what its composition is, almost no one in our Latin [that is: Western] world knows. finished February 11th anno 1144." From a blog at *RMAT https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-this-day-in-math-february-11.html | |||
File:Giovanni Antonio Magini.jpg|link=Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|1617: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer [[Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Antonio Magini]] dies. He supported a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system. | File:Giovanni Antonio Magini.jpg|link=Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|1617: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer [[Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Antonio Magini]] dies. He supported a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system. | ||
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||1626: Pietro Cataldi dies ... mathematician and astronomer. | ||1626: Pietro Cataldi dies ... mathematician and astronomer. | ||
||1635: Sir Charles Cavendish writes to William Oughtred to thank him for teaching him, "the way of calculating the divisions of your guaging rod." He also passes on praise for Oughtred’s, “Clavis is in great estimation amongst the mathematicians at Paris.“ *Augustus De Morgan, Correspondence of scientific men of the seventeenth century ..., Volume 1 https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-this-day-in-math-february-11.html | |||
File:René Descartes.jpg|link=René Descartes (nonfiction)|1650: Mathematician and philosopher [[René Descartes (nonfiction)|René Descartes]] dies. He is remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy. | File:René Descartes.jpg|link=René Descartes (nonfiction)|1650: Mathematician and philosopher [[René Descartes (nonfiction)|René Descartes]] dies. He is remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy. | ||
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||1800: William Henry Fox Talbot born ... scientist, inventor and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries. His work, in the 1840s on photomechanical reproduction, led to the creation of the photoglyphic engraving process, the precursor to photogravure. Pic. | ||1800: William Henry Fox Talbot born ... scientist, inventor and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries. His work, in the 1840s on photomechanical reproduction, led to the creation of the photoglyphic engraving process, the precursor to photogravure. Pic. | ||
||1801: Giuseppe Piazzi made a 24th observation of the position of Ceres, the asteroid he discovered between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, on 1 Jan 1801. It was the first and largest of the dwarf planets now known. After this, it moved into the light of the Sun, and was lost to view for most of the rest of the year. To mathematically relocate Ceres, Carl Gauss, age 24, took up the challenge to calculate its orbital path, based on the limited number of observations available. His method was tedious, requiring 100 hours of calculation. He began with a rough approximation for the unknown orbit, and then used it to produce a refinement, which became the subject of another improvement.. And so on. Astronomers using them found his results in close agreement as they located Ceres again 25 Nov-31 Dec 1801.« *TIS https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-this-day-in-math-february-11.html | |||
||1808: Jesse Fell burns anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal | ||1808: Jesse Fell burns anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal | ||
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||1938: BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot". | ||1938: BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot". | ||
||1939, the journal Nature published a theoretical paper on nuclear fission. The term was coined by the authors Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch, her nephew. They knew that when a uranium nucleus was struck by neutrons, barium was produced. Seeking an explanation, they used Bohr's "liquid drop" model of the nucleus to envision the neutron inducing oscillations in a uranium nucleus, which would occasionally stretch out into the shape of a dumbbell. Sometimes, the repulsive forces between the protons in the two bulbous ends would cause the narrow waist joining them to pinch off and leave two nuclei where before there had been one. They calculated calculated the huge amounts of energy released. This was the basis for nuclear chain reaction. https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-this-day-in-math-february-11.html | |||
||1942: Egbert Rudolf van Kampen dies .. mathematician. He made important contributions to topology, especially to the study of fundamental groups. Pic. | ||1942: Egbert Rudolf van Kampen dies .. mathematician. He made important contributions to topology, especially to the study of fundamental groups. Pic. | ||
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||2001: A Dutch programmer launches the Anna Kournikova virus, infecting millions of emails via a trick photo of the tennis star. | ||2001: A Dutch programmer launches the Anna Kournikova virus, infecting millions of emails via a trick photo of the tennis star. | ||
||2003 NASA's WMAP satellite completes the first detailed cosmic microwave background radiation map of the universe. The image reveals the universe is 13.7 billion years old (within one percent error) and provides evidence that supports the inflationary theory. *Wik | |||
||2006: Then U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney shot Harry Whittington, a 78-year-old Texas attorney, while participating in a quail hunt on a ranch in Riviera, Texas. | ||2006: Then U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney shot Harry Whittington, a 78-year-old Texas attorney, while participating in a quail hunt on a ranch in Riviera, Texas. | ||
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1617: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini dies. He supported a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.
1618: Writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes publishes his essay Man's Inhumanity to Man, which will profoundly influence three generations of Enlightenment-era thinkers.
1650: Mathematician and philosopher René Descartes dies. He is remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.
1760: First known use of Japanese rod calculus to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1847: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison born. He will develop the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.
1884: Set theorist and crime-fighter Georg Cantor saves Edward Lear from attack by math criminals.
1898: Physicist and academic Leo Szilard born. He will conceive the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patent the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.
1930: Mathematician, statistician, and crime-fighter Oskar Anderson publishes new theory of mathematical statistics based on Gnomon algorithm functions with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1931: Engineer and inventor Charles Algernon Parsons dies. He invented the compound steam turbine, and worked on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.
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1944: Mathematical physicist and crime-fighter Charles Critchfield uses burst of neutrons to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.
1973: Nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize laureate J. Hans D. Jensen dies. He shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.