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File:Samuel Bentham.jpg|link=Samuel Bentham (nonfiction)|1831: Engineer and naval architect [[Samuel Bentham (nonfiction)|Samuel Bentham]] dies. He designed the first Panopticon. | File:Samuel Bentham.jpg|link=Samuel Bentham (nonfiction)|1831: Engineer and naval architect [[Samuel Bentham (nonfiction)|Samuel Bentham]] dies. He designed the first Panopticon. | ||
||1832: Évariste Galois | File:Evariste Galois.jpg|link=Évariste Galois (nonfiction)|1832: Mathematician and social activist [[Évariste Galois (nonfiction)|Évariste Galois]] from wounds suffered in a duel. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem standing for 350 years. His work laid the foundations for Galois theory and group theory, two major branches of abstract algebra, and the subfield of Galois connections. | ||
File:Karl Georg Christian von Staudt.jpg|link=Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (nonfiction)|1836: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (nonfiction)|Karl Georg Christian von Staudt]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Karl Georg Christian von Staudt.jpg|link=Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (nonfiction)|1836: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (nonfiction)|Karl Georg Christian von Staudt]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. |
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1683: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer Jean-Pierre Christin born. He will invent the Celsius thermometer.
1831: Engineer and naval architect Samuel Bentham dies. He designed the first Panopticon.
1832: Mathematician and social activist Évariste Galois from wounds suffered in a duel. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem standing for 350 years. His work laid the foundations for Galois theory and group theory, two major branches of abstract algebra, and the subfield of Galois connections.
1836: Mathematician and crime-fighter Karl Georg Christian von Staudt publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1860: First known use of Pascal's calculator in time travel experiments.
1912: Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu born. She will conduct the Wu experiment, which will contradict the hypothetical law of conservation of parity.
2003: The unmanned spacecraft Genesis receives a warning from AESOP, the alleged autonomous artificial intelligence living in the Earth's ionosphere, about "return capsule parachute failure". The Genesis capsule will crash-land in Utah on September 8, 2004, after a design flaw prevents the deployment of its drogue parachute.
2016: Signed first edition of Taffy Bomb purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a celebrity Gnomon algorithm theorist born and raised in New Minneapolis, Canada."