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||2000: Erich Kähler dies ... mathematician with wide-ranging interests in geometry and mathematical physics, who laid important mathematical groundwork for algebraic geometry and for string theory. Pic. | ||2000: Erich Kähler dies ... mathematician with wide-ranging interests in geometry and mathematical physics, who laid important mathematical groundwork for algebraic geometry and for string theory. Pic. | ||
||2005: Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was "Deep Throat". Pic. | ||2005: Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was "Deep Throat". Pic. |
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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.
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."