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File:Blaise Pascal.jpg|link=Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|1633: Mathematician, physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|Blaise Pascal]] demonstrates pioneering calculating machine which detects and prevents [[crimes against physics]]. | File:Blaise Pascal.jpg|link=Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|1633: Mathematician, physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|Blaise Pascal]] demonstrates pioneering calculating machine which detects and prevents [[crimes against physics]]. | ||
File:Urbain Grandier.jpg|link=Urbain Grandier (nonfiction)|1634: [[Urbain Grandier (nonfiction)|Urbain Grandier]], accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France. He was the victim of a politically motivated persecution led by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu. | File:Urbain Grandier.jpg|link=Urbain Grandier (nonfiction)|1634: Catholic priest [[Urbain Grandier (nonfiction)|Urbain Grandier]], accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France. He was the victim of a politically motivated persecution led by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu. | ||
||1652: Florimond de Beaune dies ... jurist and mathematician. In a 1638 letter to Descartes, de Beaune described the first example of the inverse tangent method of deducing properties of a curve from its tangents. Pic, book cover: http://www.librairiedesmaths.com/site/ficprod.asp?IDProduit=1887 | ||1652: Florimond de Beaune dies ... jurist and mathematician. In a 1638 letter to Descartes, de Beaune described the first example of the inverse tangent method of deducing properties of a curve from its tangents. Pic, book cover: http://www.librairiedesmaths.com/site/ficprod.asp?IDProduit=1887 | ||
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1633: Mathematician, physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Blaise Pascal demonstrates pioneering calculating machine which detects and prevents crimes against physics.
1634: Catholic priest Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France. He was the victim of a politically motivated persecution led by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
1909: Engineer, sociologist, economist, and alleged time-traveller Vilfredo Pareto discovers previously unknown wealth distribution algorithm which detects exotic non-Euclidean materials such as Corinthium and Extract of Radium.
1910: Mathematician Pál Turán born. He will work primarily in number theory, but also contribute to analysis and graph theory.
1910: Judge Havelock and Nikola Tesla demonstrate new data transmission protocols which will be useful in predicting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1911: Computer scientist Klara Dan von Neumann born. She will be one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.
1956: Inventor, writer, editor, and publisher Hugo Gernsback issues a call for entries for his new mathematical journal, Gnomon Chronicles Quarterly.
2016: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.
2017: Signed first edition of Cowries deleted from the Museum of Modern Art in New York City by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang using weaponized algorithms.
2019: "It’s because of your taste buds that the Yorkshire Tea hurt Daddy’s brain" is voted Joke of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.