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||1898: Gregor Wentzel born ... physicist known for development of quantum mechanics. Wentzel, Hendrik Kramers, and Léon Brillouin developed the Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin approximation in 1926. In his early years, he contributed to X-ray spectroscopy, but then broadened out to make contributions to quantum mechanics, quantum electrodynamics, and meson theory. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=gregor+wentzel | ||1898: Gregor Wentzel born ... physicist known for development of quantum mechanics. Wentzel, Hendrik Kramers, and Léon Brillouin developed the Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin approximation in 1926. In his early years, he contributed to X-ray spectroscopy, but then broadened out to make contributions to quantum mechanics, quantum electrodynamics, and meson theory. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=gregor+wentzel | ||
||1905: Rózsa Péter born ... mathematician. | ||1905: Rózsa Péter born ... mathematician and logician. She is best known as the "founding mother of recursion theory". Pic. | ||
||1906: Henrik Selberg born ... mathematician. He was born in Bergen as the son of Ole Michael Ludvigsen Selberg and Anna Kristina Brigtsdatter Skeie. He was a brother of Sigmund, Arne and Atle Selberg. He was appointed professor at the University of Oslo from 1962 to 1973. He is best known for his works on complex functions and potential theory. | ||1906: Henrik Selberg born ... mathematician. He was born in Bergen as the son of Ole Michael Ludvigsen Selberg and Anna Kristina Brigtsdatter Skeie. He was a brother of Sigmund, Arne and Atle Selberg. He was appointed professor at the University of Oslo from 1962 to 1973. He is best known for his works on complex functions and potential theory. | ||
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||1907: Alfred Brousseau born ... educator, photographer and mathematician and was known mostly as a founder of the Fibonacci Association and as an educator. Pic: http://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/bstud/brousseau.html | ||1907: Alfred Brousseau born ... educator, photographer and mathematician and was known mostly as a founder of the Fibonacci Association and as an educator. Pic: http://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/bstud/brousseau.html | ||
||1918: Jacqueline Ferrand born ... mathematician. | ||1918: Jacqueline Ferrand born ... mathematician and academic. Ferrand worked on conformal representation theory, potential theory, and Riemannian manifolds. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=jacqueline+ferrand | ||
||1918: Alfred Horn born ... mathematician notable for his work in lattice theory and universal algebra. His 1951 paper "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras" described Horn clauses and Horn sentences, which later would form the foundation of logic programming. Pic. | ||1918: Alfred Horn born ... mathematician notable for his work in lattice theory and universal algebra. His 1951 paper "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras" described Horn clauses and Horn sentences, which later would form the foundation of logic programming. Pic. | ||
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882: Physician, astronomer, mathematician, and crime-fighter Thābit ibn Qurra publishes new theory of Gnomon algorithm functions with applications in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1600: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake.
1863: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley engages and sinks the Union warship USS Housatonic. This is the first known instance of a submarine engaging and sinking a warship.
1864: Mathematician and crime-fighter Marius Sophus Lie publishes new theory of continuous symmetry with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1891: Mathematician Abraham Fraenkel born. He will contribute to axiomatic set theory, and publish a biography of George Cantor.
2003: George Plimpton publishes first in prize-winning series of articles on high-energy literature.
2012: Mathematician and theorist Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn dies. He made contributions in the fields of analysis, number theory, combinatorics, and logic.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Pinwheel Diagram unexpectedly reveals "between four and five hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.
2018: Steganographic analysis of The Eel Discovers Time Travel reveals five hundred gigabytes of encrypted data.
