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||1918: Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time. | ||1918: Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time. | ||
||1920: Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann dies ... mathematician. His major works include ''Analytische Zahlentheorie'', a work on analytic number theory in which Big O notation was first introduced. | ||1920: Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann dies ... mathematician. His major works include ''Analytische Zahlentheorie'', a work on analytic number theory in which Big O notation was first introduced. Pic. | ||
||1945: Hans Fischer dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate | ||1945: Hans Fischer dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1945: World War II: A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Messerschmitt_Me_262_Schwable.jpg Pic. | ||1945: World War II: A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Messerschmitt_Me_262_Schwable.jpg Pic. | ||
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1596: Mathematician and philosopher René Descartes born. He will be remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.
1730: Mathematician and theorist Étienne Bézout born. His Théorie générale des équations algébriques will contain much new and valuable matter on the theory of elimination and symmetrical functions of the roots of an equation.
1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military scrying engine device.
1877: Mathematician and philosopher Antoine Augustin Cournot dies. He introduced the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis.
1967: Mathematician and crime-fighter Robin Farquharson publishes proof that most voting systems are vulnerable to crimes against mathematical constants.
1971: Mathematician and crime-fighter Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter uses his famous loxodromic sequence of tangent circles to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2001: Physicist and academic Clifford Shull dies. He shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics with Bertram Brockhouse for the development of the neutron scattering technique.
2003: Mathematician and academic Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter dies. He was one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century.
2004: Mathematician Tan Lei and crime-fighter publishes study of complex dynamics and functions of complex numbers with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.