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||1883: Richard Edler von Mises born ... scientist and mathematician who worked on solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, aeronautics, statistics and probability theory. Pic. | ||1883: Richard Edler von Mises born ... scientist and mathematician who worked on solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, aeronautics, statistics and probability theory. Pic. | ||
||1885: Leonida Tonelli born ...mathematician, noted for creating Tonelli's theorem, a variation of Fubini's theorem, and for introducing semicontinuity methods as a common tool for the direct method in the calculus of variations. | ||1885: Leonida Tonelli born ...mathematician, noted for creating Tonelli's theorem, a variation of Fubini's theorem, and for introducing semicontinuity methods as a common tool for the direct method in the calculus of variations. Pic. | ||
||1889: Michel Eugène Chevreul dies ... chemist and academic. | ||1889: Michel Eugène Chevreul dies ... chemist and academic. | ||
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||1905: Charles Ehresmann born ... mathematician who worked in differential topology and category theory. He was an early member of the Bourbaki group, and is known for his work on the differential geometry of smooth fiber bundles, notably the Ehresmann connection, the concept of jets of a smooth map, and his seminar on category theory. | ||1905: Charles Ehresmann born ... mathematician who worked in differential topology and category theory. He was an early member of the Bourbaki group, and is known for his work on the differential geometry of smooth fiber bundles, notably the Ehresmann connection, the concept of jets of a smooth map, and his seminar on category theory. | ||
||1906: Pierre Curie dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1909: Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander born ... cryptanalyst, chess player, and chess writer. He worked on the German Enigma machine at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, and was later the head of the cryptanalysis division at GCHQ for 25 years. Pic. | ||1909: Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander born ... cryptanalyst, chess player, and chess writer. He worked on the German Enigma machine at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, and was later the head of the cryptanalysis division at GCHQ for 25 years. Pic. | ||
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1860: On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.
1881: Mathematician Karl Mikhailovich Peterson dies. He discovered equations which were subsequently named the Gauss–Codazzi equations, fundamental to the theory of embedded hypersurfaces in a Euclidean space.
1882: Large herd of Flying bison (Bison pterobonasus) migrates from Periphery to New Minneapolis, Canada.
1912: Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg born. He will share the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis, discovery, and investigation of transuranium elements.
1914: Mathematician and philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce dies. He is remembered as "the father of pragmatism".
1932: Mathematician Giuseppe Peano publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use set theory to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2016: Chromatographic analysis of Violet Spiral reveals "at least two, probably three" previously unknown shades of violet.
2016: Theoretical physicist, theoretical chemist, and Nobel laureate Walter Kohn dies. He developed density functional theory, which makes it possible to calculate quantum mechanical electronic structure by equations involving the electronic density.
2019: The Great Nerd Giveaway begins. By the end of Minicon 54, hundreds of nerd items will have found new homes, with lots of fun generated in the process.