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||AD 51: Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title ''princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth). Pic. | ||AD 51: Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title ''princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth). Pic. | ||
File:Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi.jpg|link=Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|928: Astronomer [[Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to solve [[crimes against | File:Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi.jpg|link=Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|928: Astronomer [[Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to solve [[crimes against astronomical constants]]. | ||
||1394: Prince Henry the Navigator born ... patron of exploration. Pic. | ||1394: Prince Henry the Navigator born ... patron of exploration. Pic. | ||
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||1634: Kazimierz Łyszczyński born ... philosopher ... Executed for writing "De non existentia Dei" (On the non-existence of God). Pic: Postage stamp. | ||1634: Kazimierz Łyszczyński born ... philosopher ... Executed for writing "De non existentia Dei" (On the non-existence of God). Pic: Postage stamp. | ||
||1675: John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England. Pic. | ||1675: John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England. 1675 date of Charles II’s Royal Warrant that ordered the Board of Ordnance to pay for “the support and Maintenance” of John Flamsteed, appointed “our astronomical observator” and charged: “to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find our the so much-desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation.” https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/03/on-this-day-in-math-march-4.html Pic. | ||
File:Jack Sheppard - Thornhill.jpg|link=Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|1702: Thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|Jack Sheppard]] born. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes. | File:Jack Sheppard - Thornhill.jpg|link=Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|1702: Thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|Jack Sheppard]] born. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes. | ||
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||1853: Christian Leopold von Buch dies ... geologist and paleontologist. | ||1853: Christian Leopold von Buch dies ... geologist and paleontologist. | ||
||1837: Adolphe Quetelet predicts a meteor shower for the night of August 10th. First published prediction that Persid meteors were annual event. https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/03/on-this-day-in-math-march-4.html Pic. | |||
||1837: The city of Chicago is incorporated. | ||1837: The city of Chicago is incorporated. | ||
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||1889: Oscar Chisini born ... mathematician and statistician. | ||1889: Oscar Chisini born ... mathematician and statistician. | ||
||1891: Mathematician and academic David Hilbert submits article on his space filling curve, ''Über die stetige Abbildung einer Linie auf ein Flächenstück'' to the journal Mathematische Annalen. https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/03/on-this-day-in-math-march-4.html *Wik Pic. | |||
||1893: Charles Herbert Colvin born ... engineer, co-founded the Pioneer Instrument Company. | ||1893: Charles Herbert Colvin born ... engineer, co-founded the Pioneer Instrument Company. | ||
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||1944: Louis Capone dies ... gangster. | ||1944: Louis Capone dies ... gangster. | ||
||1949 The first time the carbon-14 radioactive dating technique was used. To test the theory the method was used to determine the age of Egyptian artifacts where their age was already known. Willard Frank Libby dated a piece of wood from the Third Dynasty Pharaoh Djoser's tomb that was about 4,700 years old. This age was nearly the same as the half-life of carbon-14, they expected the concentration of carbon-14 would be half that found today. This test was successful. *about.com https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/03/on-this-day-in-math-march-4.html | |||
||1952: Felix Ehrenhaft dies ... physicist who contributed to atomic physics, to the measurement of electrical charges and to the optical properties of metal colloids. He was known for his maverick and controversial style. Pic. | ||1952: Felix Ehrenhaft dies ... physicist who contributed to atomic physics, to the measurement of electrical charges and to the optical properties of metal colloids. He was known for his maverick and controversial style. Pic. | ||
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||1954: Mark Chorvinsk born ... magician and author. | ||1954: Mark Chorvinsk born ... magician and author. | ||
||1956 An Wang Sells Core Memory Patent to IBM: An Wang sells his patent for ferrite core memory to IBM for $500,000. One of the most important inventions in computer history, ferrite core memory was widely used in digital computers from the mid-1950s until the mid-1970s. The U.S. Patent Office awarded Wang the patent for what he called a pulse transfer controlling device in 1949. Jay Forrester at MIT is considered the inventor of core memory. *CHM https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/03/on-this-day-in-math-march-4.html Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=an+wang | |||
||1967: Michel Plancherel dies ... mathematician. He worked in the areas of mathematical analysis, mathematical physics and algebra, and is known for the Plancherel theorem in harmonic analysis. Pic. | ||1967: Michel Plancherel dies ... mathematician. He worked in the areas of mathematical analysis, mathematical physics and algebra, and is known for the Plancherel theorem in harmonic analysis. Pic. | ||
Revision as of 07:24, 4 March 2019
928: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi uses Gnomon algorithm to solve crimes against astronomical constants.
1702: Thief Jack Sheppard born. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.
1821: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Pierre-Simon Laplace publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1881: Physicist and chemist Richard C. Tolman born. He will make important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity.
1931: US Navy says Carnivorous dirigibles cannot be tamed, should be put down.
2007: Mathematician Hing Tong dies. He made contributions to algebraic topology, including a proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem.
2007: Math photographer Cantor Parabola publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which uses time crystals to reveal centuries-old events.
2008: Game designer Gary Gygax dies. He co-created the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson.
2016: Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting." Parabola's work will influence a generation of mathematicians.