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||1717: Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier born ... botanist and physicist. | ||1717: Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier born ... botanist and physicist. No pic online. | ||
||1767: Alexis Bouvard born ... astronomer. He is particularly noted for his careful observations of the irregularities in the motion of Uranus and his hypothesis of the existence of an eighth planet in the solar system. Pic. | ||1767: Alexis Bouvard born ... astronomer. He is particularly noted for his careful observations of the irregularities in the motion of Uranus and his hypothesis of the existence of an eighth planet in the solar system. Pic. | ||
||1806: Augustus De Morgan born ... mathematician and logician. He formulated De Morgan's laws and introduced the term mathematical induction, making its idea rigorous. | ||1806: Augustus De Morgan born ... mathematician and logician. He formulated De Morgan's laws and introduced the term mathematical induction, making its idea rigorous. Pic. | ||
||1829: James Smithson born ... chemist and mineralogist. | ||1829: James Smithson born ... chemist and mineralogist. | ||
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1831: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Sophie Germain dies. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem provided a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after.
1880: Mathematician and academic Carl Wilhelm Borchardt dies. He contributed to arithmetic-geometric mean theory, continuing work by Gauss and Lagrange.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1975: Mathematician and physicist G. I. Taylor dies. He made major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.
2010: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says Niles Cartouchian (1900s).