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||1994: Dmitri Ivanenko dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=dmitri+ivanenko | ||1994: Dmitri Ivanenko dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=dmitri+ivanenko | ||
||1999: Fritz Leonhardt dies ... engineer ... made major contributions to 20th-century bridge engineering, especially in the development of cable-stayed bridges. His book ''Bridges: Aesthetics and Design'' is well known throughout the bridge engineering community. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=fritz+leonhardt | |||
||2001: Vladimir Mikhailovich Zakalyukin dies ... mathematician known for his research on singularity theory, differential equations, and optimal control theory. Pic: http://www.cmapx.polytechnique.fr/~boscain/volodia.html | ||2001: Vladimir Mikhailovich Zakalyukin dies ... mathematician known for his research on singularity theory, differential equations, and optimal control theory. Pic: http://www.cmapx.polytechnique.fr/~boscain/volodia.html | ||
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1563: Mathematician, fencer, and APTO field engineer Ludolph van Ceulen publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1842: Osman Hamdi Bey born. He will be an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.
1892: Mathematician Pekka Myrberg born. He will do fundamental work on the iteration of rational functions (especially quadratic functions), developing the concept of period-doubling. Myrberg's research will revive interest in the results of Gaston Julia and Pierre Fatou.
1916: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin dies.
1947: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead dies. He was a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.
1947: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren dies. He was one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.
1954: Tunguska Event Preservation Society pledge drive day.
1963: Field Report Number One by Vandal Savage Press wins Pulitzer Award.
2013: Mathematician and academic Paul Sally dies. He was known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago".
2016: Eye Foot is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.