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||2014: Walter Thirring dies ... physicist after whom the Thirring model in quantum field theory is named. | ||2014: Walter Thirring dies ... physicist after whom the Thirring model in quantum field theory is named. | ||
File:Green Spiral 2.jpg|link=Green Spiral 2|2014: '''''[[Green Spiral 2]]''''' is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada. | |||
File:Giant Red Ball in Toledo Ohio.jpg|link=Toledo giant red ball incident (nonfiction)|2015: A [[Toledo giant red ball incident (nonfiction)|giant red ball breaks loose from an art installation and rolls down the street]] in Toledo, Ohio. | File:Giant Red Ball in Toledo Ohio.jpg|link=Toledo giant red ball incident (nonfiction)|2015: A [[Toledo giant red ball incident (nonfiction)|giant red ball breaks loose from an art installation and rolls down the street]] in Toledo, Ohio. | ||
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1662: Mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher Blaise Pascal dies. Pacal did pioneering work on calculating machines.
1758: Jean-Étienne Montucla received the censor's approbation for his Histoire des mathematiques, which is justly famous as a history of the mathematical sciences.
1822: Mathematician and astronomer Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre dies. He was one of the first astronomers to derive astronomical equations from analytical formulas.
1823: Red Eyes Fighting depicts martial artist and crime-fighter Red Eyes breaking up a math lab.
1906: Inventor Philo Farnsworth born. He will make many crucial contributions to the early development of all-electronic television.
1913: Computer scientist, engineer, and academic John Argyris born. A pioneer of computer applications in science and engineering, Argyris will be among the creators of the finite element method.
1923: Engineer, sociologist, economist, political scientist, and philosopher Vilfredo Pareto dies. He applied mathematics to economic analysis, asserting that the distribution of incomes and wealth in society is not random and that a consistent pattern appears throughout history, in all parts of the world and in all societies.
1967: Inventor, writer, editor, and publisher Hugo Gernsback dies. He published the first science fiction magazine, and had a profound influence on the development of science fiction.
1993: Actor-cryptographer Niles Cartouchian confirms that he personally designed the computational security protocols featured in the action-adventure film Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.
1994: Chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator Linus Pauling dies.
2014: Green Spiral 2 is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2015: A giant red ball breaks loose from an art installation and rolls down the street in Toledo, Ohio.
2018: Mathematicians use Complex analysis to reveal new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.