Template:Selected anniversaries/September 11: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
Line 2: | Line 2: | ||
File:Martin Waldseemüller.jpg|link=Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|1470: Mapmaker [[Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|Martin Waldseemüller]] born. He will produce a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map using the information from Columbus and Vespucci's travels (Universalis Cosmographia), both bearing the first use of the name "America". | File:Martin Waldseemüller.jpg|link=Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|1470: Mapmaker [[Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|Martin Waldseemüller]] born. He will produce a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map using the information from Columbus and Vespucci's travels (Universalis Cosmographia), both bearing the first use of the name "America". | ||
||1717: Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin born ... astronomer and demographer. Pic. | ||1717: Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin born ... astronomer and demographer. Pic. |
Revision as of 05:53, 11 September 2020
1470: Mapmaker Martin Waldseemüller born. He will produce a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map using the information from Columbus and Vespucci's travels (Universalis Cosmographia), both bearing the first use of the name "America".
1798: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician Franz Ernst Neumann born. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds will include what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents.
1831: Mathematician Carl Jacobi appointed professor. After a four hour disputation in Latin, Jacobi was appointed professor at the University of Konigsberg. While there he inaugurated what was then a complete novelty in mathematics: research seminars for the more advanced students and interested colleagues.
1843: Mathematician and explorer Joseph Nicollet dies. He mapped the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s.
1859: Surgeon and gentleman scientist James Braid uses principles of hypnotherapy to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1862: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, born.
- Felice Casorati
1890: Felice Casorati dies. Casorati is best known for the Casorati–Weierstrass theorem in complex analysis.
1973: Talk show host Peter Giblets exchanges record number of witticisms-per-minute with talk show host Dick Cavett on the highest-ever rated episode of the Peter Giblets Hour.
1997: NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
2013: Mathematician and computer scientist Andrzej Trybulec dies. He developed the Mizar system: a formal language for writing mathematical definitions and proofs, a proof assistant which is able to mechanically check proofs written in this language, and a library of formalized mathematics which can be used in the proof of new theorems.
2018: Signed first edition of Do Not Tease Monster stolen from the private collection of celebrity Peter Giblets by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang, held for ransom.