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File:Jack Sheppard - Thornhill.jpg|link=Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|1702: Thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|Jack Sheppard]] born. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes. | File:Jack Sheppard - Thornhill.jpg|link=Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|1702: Thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|Jack Sheppard]] born. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes. | ||
||1760: Hugh Ronalds born ... nurseryman who cultivated and documented 300 varieties of apples. Pic search tombstone | ||1760: Hugh Ronalds born ... nurseryman who cultivated and documented 300 varieties of apples. Pic search tombstone. | ||
||1790: France is divided into 83 départements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility. | ||1790: France is divided into 83 départements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility. | ||
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||1837: The city of Chicago is incorporated. | ||1837: The city of Chicago is incorporated. | ||
||1847: Carl Josef Bayer born ... chemist and academic. Pic search | ||1847: Carl Josef Bayer born ... chemist and academic. Pic search. | ||
||1853: Christian Leopold von Buch dies ... geologist and paleontologist. Pic. | ||1853: Christian Leopold von Buch dies ... geologist and paleontologist. Pic. | ||
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||1854: William Napier Shaw born ... meteorologist. He introduced the tephigram, a diagram of temperature changes. Pic. | ||1854: William Napier Shaw born ... meteorologist. He introduced the tephigram, a diagram of temperature changes. Pic. | ||
||1862: Jacob Robert Emden born ... astrophysicist and meteorologist ... mathematical model of the behavior of polytropic gaseous stellar objects under the influence their own gravity, known as the Lane-Emden equation. Pic search | ||1862: Jacob Robert Emden born ... astrophysicist and meteorologist ... mathematical model of the behavior of polytropic gaseous stellar objects under the influence their own gravity, known as the Lane-Emden equation. Pic search. | ||
||1866: Eugène Cosserat born ... mathematician and astronomer. He did early work on the theory of micropolar elasticity. | ||1866: Eugène Cosserat born ... mathematician and astronomer. He did early work on the theory of micropolar elasticity. Pic search. | ||
||1871: Boris Galerkin born ... mathematician and engineer. He contributed to the finite element method, which is a way to numerically solve partial differential equations. The Galerkin method approximates the solution to a problem in weak form. Pic. | ||1871: Boris Galerkin born ... mathematician and engineer. He contributed to the finite element method, which is a way to numerically solve partial differential equations. The Galerkin method approximates the solution to a problem in weak form. Pic. | ||
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||1904: George Gamow born ... physicist and cosmologist. | ||1904: George Gamow born ... physicist and cosmologist. | ||
||1909: George Edward Holbrook born ... chemist and engineer. Pic search | ||1909: George Edward Holbrook born ... chemist and engineer. Pic search. | ||
||1910: Knut Johan Ångström dies ... physicist. He investigated the radiation of heat from the sun, and terrestrial nocturnal emission and its absorption by the Earth's atmosphere; to that end devised various delicate methods and instruments, including his electric compensation pyrheliometer, invented in 1893, apparatus for obtaining a photographic representation of the infra-red spectrum (1895) and pyrgeometer (circa 1905) Pic. | ||1910: Knut Johan Ångström dies ... physicist. He investigated the radiation of heat from the sun, and terrestrial nocturnal emission and its absorption by the Earth's atmosphere; to that end devised various delicate methods and instruments, including his electric compensation pyrheliometer, invented in 1893, apparatus for obtaining a photographic representation of the infra-red spectrum (1895) and pyrgeometer (circa 1905) Pic. | ||
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||1944: Louis Capone dies ... gangster. | ||1944: Louis Capone dies ... gangster. | ||
||1949 The first time the carbon-14 radioactive dating technique was used. To test the theory the method was used to determine the age of Egyptian artifacts where their age was already known. Willard Frank Libby dated a piece of wood from the Third Dynasty Pharaoh Djoser's tomb that was about 4,700 years old. This age was nearly the same as the half-life of carbon-14, they expected the concentration of carbon-14 would be half that found today. This test was successful. *about.com https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/03/on-this-day-in-math-march-4.html | ||1948: Antonin Artaud born ... actor, director, and playwright. Pic. | ||
||1949: The first time the carbon-14 radioactive dating technique was used. To test the theory the method was used to determine the age of Egyptian artifacts where their age was already known. Willard Frank Libby dated a piece of wood from the Third Dynasty Pharaoh Djoser's tomb that was about 4,700 years old. This age was nearly the same as the half-life of carbon-14, they expected the concentration of carbon-14 would be half that found today. This test was successful. *about.com https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/03/on-this-day-in-math-march-4.html | |||
||1952: Felix Ehrenhaft dies ... physicist who contributed to atomic physics, to the measurement of electrical charges and to the optical properties of metal colloids. He was known for his maverick and controversial style. Pic. | ||1952: Felix Ehrenhaft dies ... physicist who contributed to atomic physics, to the measurement of electrical charges and to the optical properties of metal colloids. He was known for his maverick and controversial style. Pic. | ||
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||1954: Mark Chorvinsk born ... magician and author. | ||1954: Mark Chorvinsk born ... magician and author. | ||
||1956 An Wang Sells Core Memory Patent to IBM: An Wang sells his patent for ferrite core memory to IBM for $500,000. One of the most important inventions in computer history, ferrite core memory was widely used in digital computers from the mid-1950s until the mid-1970s. The U.S. Patent Office awarded Wang the patent for what he called a pulse transfer controlling device in 1949. Jay Forrester at MIT is considered the inventor of core memory. *CHM https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/03/on-this-day-in-math-march-4.html Pic search | ||1956 An Wang Sells Core Memory Patent to IBM: An Wang sells his patent for ferrite core memory to IBM for $500,000. One of the most important inventions in computer history, ferrite core memory was widely used in digital computers from the mid-1950s until the mid-1970s. The U.S. Patent Office awarded Wang the patent for what he called a pulse transfer controlling device in 1949. Jay Forrester at MIT is considered the inventor of core memory. *CHM https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/03/on-this-day-in-math-march-4.html Pic search. | ||
||1967: Michel Plancherel dies ... mathematician. He worked in the areas of mathematical analysis, mathematical physics and algebra, and is known for the Plancherel theorem in harmonic analysis. Pic. | ||1967: Michel Plancherel dies ... mathematician. He worked in the areas of mathematical analysis, mathematical physics and algebra, and is known for the Plancherel theorem in harmonic analysis. Pic. | ||
Revision as of 05:34, 3 September 2020
1702: Thief Jack Sheppard born. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.
1821: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Pierre-Simon Laplace publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1881: Physicist and chemist Richard C. Tolman born. He will make important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity.
1931: US Navy says Carnivorous dirigibles cannot be tamed, should be put down.
2007: Mathematician Hing Tong dies. He made contributions to algebraic topology, including a proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem.
2007: Math photographer Cantor Parabola publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which uses time crystals to reveal centuries-old events.
2008: Game designer Gary Gygax dies. He co-created the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson.
2016: Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting." Parabola's work will influence a generation of mathematicians.