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File:Karl Georg Christian von Staudt.jpg|link=Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (nonfiction)|1836: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (nonfiction)|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]].
File:Karl Georg Christian von Staudt.jpg|link=Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (nonfiction)|1836: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (nonfiction)|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]].


||1841: George Green dies ...  mathematical physicist who wrote ''An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism'' (Green, 1828). The essay introduced several important concepts, among them a theorem similar to the modern Green's theorem, the idea of potential functions as currently used in physics, and the concept of what are now called Green's functions. Green was the first person to create a mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism and his theory formed the foundation for the work of other scientists. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Green_(English_shipbuilder).jpg Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=george+green+(mathematician)
||1841: George Green dies ...  mathematical physicist who wrote ''An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism'' (Green, 1828). The essay introduced several important concepts, among them a theorem similar to the modern Green's theorem, the idea of potential functions as currently used in physics, and the concept of what are now called Green's functions. Green was the first person to create a mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism and his theory formed the foundation for the work of other scientists. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Green_(English_shipbuilder).jpg Pic search.


||1852: Julius Richard Petri born ... microbiologist, invented the Petri dish. Pic.
||1852: Julius Richard Petri born ... microbiologist, invented the Petri dish. Pic.
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||1861: William Peddie born ... physicist and applied mathematician, known for his research on colour vision and molecular magnetism. Pic.
||1861: William Peddie born ... physicist and applied mathematician, known for his research on colour vision and molecular magnetism. Pic.


||1877: Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion born ... astronomer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Gabrielle+Renaudot+Flammarion
||1877: Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion born ... astronomer. Pic search.


||1889: Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
||1889: Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
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||1918: Alexander Mitscherlich dies ... chemist and academic. His most important work was in the field of processing wood to create cellulose. He patented an early version of the sulfite process in 1882. Pic.
||1918: Alexander Mitscherlich dies ... chemist and academic. His most important work was in the field of processing wood to create cellulose. He patented an early version of the sulfite process in 1882. Pic.


||1918: Lloyd Quarterman born ... chemist. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=lloyd+quarterman
||1918: Lloyd Quarterman born ... chemist. Pic search.


||1921: Tulsa race riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The official death toll was given as 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300.
||1921: Tulsa race riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The official death toll was given as 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300.
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||1988: Alfred Brousseau born ... educator, photographer and mathematician and was known mostly as a founder of the Fibonacci Association and as an educator. Pic: http://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/bstud/brousseau.html
||1988: Alfred Brousseau born ... educator, photographer and mathematician and was known mostly as a founder of the Fibonacci Association and as an educator. Pic: http://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/bstud/brousseau.html
||1996: Timothy Leary dies ... psychologist and writer known for his strong advocacy of psychedelic drugs. 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.
||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.

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  • 1683: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer Jean-Pierre Christin born. He will invent the Celsius thermometer.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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 law of conservation of parity, proving that parity is not conserved.

    1912: Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu born. She will conduct the Wu experiment, which will contradict the law of conservation of parity, proving that parity is not conserved.

  • 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."

    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."

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