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File:Siegel der Universitat Leipzig.png|link=Leipzig University (nonfiction)|1409: The [[Leipzig University (nonfiction)|University of Leipzig]] opens. Famous future alumni will include [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Leibniz]], Goethe, Ranke, [[Friedrich Nietzsche (nonfiction)|Nietzsche]], Wagner, Angela Merkel, Raila Odinga, and [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]]. | File:Siegel der Universitat Leipzig.png|link=Leipzig University (nonfiction)|1409: The [[Leipzig University (nonfiction)|University of Leipzig]] opens. Famous future alumni will include [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Leibniz]], Goethe, Ranke, [[Friedrich Nietzsche (nonfiction)|Nietzsche]], Wagner, Angela Merkel, Raila Odinga, and [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]]. | ||
||1594: Gerardus Mercator dies ... mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher. | ||1594: Gerardus Mercator dies ... mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher. Pic. | ||
||1678: Nicolaas Kruik born ... astronomer and cartographer. Pic: map by Kruik. | ||1678: Nicolaas Kruik born ... astronomer and cartographer. Pic: map by Kruik. | ||
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File:Paul Du Bois-Reymond Heidelberg.jpg|link=Paul du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|1831: Mathematician [[Paul du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|Paul David Gustav du Bois-Reymond]] born. He will work on the theory of functions and in mathematical physics. | File:Paul Du Bois-Reymond Heidelberg.jpg|link=Paul du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|1831: Mathematician [[Paul du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|Paul David Gustav du Bois-Reymond]] born. He will work on the theory of functions and in mathematical physics. | ||
||1844: Adrien-Jean-Pierre Thilorier born ... inventor who was the first person to produce solid carbon dioxide ("dry ice"). Pic: machine. | |||
||1845: Manifest destiny: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President James K. Polk proposes that the United States should aggressively expand into the West. | ||1845: Manifest destiny: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President James K. Polk proposes that the United States should aggressively expand into the West. | ||
Revision as of 16:51, 27 February 2019
1409: The University of Leipzig opens. Famous future alumni will include Leibniz, Goethe, Ranke, Nietzsche, Wagner, Angela Merkel, Raila Odinga, and Tycho Brahe.
1831: Mathematician Paul David Gustav du Bois-Reymond born. He will work on the theory of functions and in mathematical physics.
1939: Physicist and crime-fighter Enrico Fermi publishes evidence that nuclear weapons will be vulnerable to crimes against chemistry.
1942: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
1966: Mathematician and philosopher L. E. J. Brouwer dies. He made contributions to topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis; and he founded the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism.
1987: Physicist, astronomer, and cosmologist Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich dies. He played a crucial role in the development of the Soviet Union's nuclear bomb project, associated closely in nuclear weapons testing to study the effects of nuclear explosion from 1943 until 1963.
2016: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.
2017: Signed first edition of Green Spiral sold for an undisclosed amount to "a prominent Gnomon algorithm theorist, a longtime resident of New Minneapolis, Canada."