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||1979: Alexander Weinstein dies ... mathematician who worked on boundary value problems in fluid dynamics. Pic.
||1979: Alexander Weinstein dies ... mathematician who worked on boundary value problems in fluid dynamics. Pic.


||1993: Georges Henri Reeb dies ... mathematician. He worked in differential topology, differential geometry, differential equations, topological dynamical systems theory and non-standard analysis. Pic.
||1993: Georges Reeb dies ... mathematician. He worked in differential topology, differential geometry, differential equations, topological dynamical systems theory and non-standard analysis. Pic.


||2002: Sid Sackson dies ... game designer ... board game designer and collector, best known as the creator of the business game ''Acquire''. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=sid+sackson
||2002: Sid Sackson dies ... game designer ... board game designer and collector, best known as the creator of the business game ''Acquire''. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=sid+sackson

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  • 1656: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Morin dies.

    1656: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Morin dies.

  • 1872: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alfred Clebsch publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use algebraic geometry and invariant theory to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1872: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alfred Clebsch publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use algebraic geometry and invariant theory to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1944: Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

    1944: Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

  • 1971: The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.

    1971: The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.

  • 1973: The Pioneer 10 space probe begins taking photographs of Jupiter. A total of about 500 images will be transmitted.

    1973: The Pioneer 10 space probe begins taking photographs of Jupiter. A total of about 500 images will be transmitted.

  • 1976: An episode of Euglena Junction shocks viewers when the actor playing the role of Uncle Joe dies on set after eating too many rotifers.

    1976: An episode of Euglena Junction shocks viewers when the actor playing the role of Uncle Joe dies on set after eating too many rotifers.

  • 2017: Signed first edition of Ursa Nano sells for undisclosed amount in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against light. The buyer is reported to be "a prominent mathematician living in New Minneapolis, Canada."

    2017: Signed first edition of Ursa Nano sells for undisclosed amount in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against light. The buyer is reported to be "a prominent mathematician living in New Minneapolis, Canada."

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