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||1904: Paul Tannery dies ... mathematician and historian of mathematics. He was the older brother of mathematician Jules Tannery, to whose Notions Mathématiques he contributed an historical chapter. Though Tannery's career was in the tobacco industry, he devoted his evenings and his life to the study of mathematicians and mathematical development. | ||1904: Paul Tannery dies ... mathematician and historian of mathematics. He was the older brother of mathematician Jules Tannery, to whose Notions Mathématiques he contributed an historical chapter. Though Tannery's career was in the tobacco industry, he devoted his evenings and his life to the study of mathematicians and mathematical development. | ||
||1909: Anatoly Maltsev born ... mathematician and theorist. | ||1909: Anatoly Maltsev born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Anatoly+Maltsev+mathematician | ||
||1923: J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. born ... nuclear scientist, mechanical engineer and mathematician. Pic. | ||1923: J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. born ... nuclear scientist, mechanical engineer and mathematician. Pic. |
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1754: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre dies. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, is prized by gamblers.
1852: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace dies. She did pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1971: The The Mars 2 landing module crashes on Mars after its parachute fails to deploy.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars observes a moment of silence in memory of the forty-sixth anniversary of the Mars 2 crash.