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||1975: Rex Stout dies ... detective novelist. | ||1975: Rex Stout dies ... detective novelist. | ||
||1980: John Hasbrouck Van Vleck dies ... physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1980: John Hasbrouck Van Vleck dies ... physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1981: The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden. | ||1981: The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden. | ||
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1654: Blaise Pascal writes to Pierre de Fermat, praising him for his solution to the Problem of the Points, about which they had exchanged seven previous letters.
1675: Mathematician and academic Gilles de Roberval dies. He published a system of the universe in which he supports the Copernican heliocentric system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter.
1678: Mathematician Pierre Raymond de Montmort born. He will write Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard, an influential book about probability and games of chance which will introduce the combinatorial study of derangements.
1853: Mark Twains interviews Wallace War-Heels. Twain will later call it "the interview of a lifetime."
1854: Physician Golding Bird dies. He pioneered the medical use of electricity.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1995: Richard Smalley uses carbon nanotubes to detect and prevent crimes against chemical constants.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars remembers Mariner 9, which was switched off forty-five years ago.
