Template:Selected anniversaries/July 27: Difference between revisions

From Gnomon Chronicles
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
No edit summary
 
Line 12: Line 12:


File:George Biddell Airy 1891.jpg|link=George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|1801: Mathematician and astronomer [[George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|George Biddell Airy]] born. His achievements will include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian.
File:George Biddell Airy 1891.jpg|link=George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|1801: Mathematician and astronomer [[George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|George Biddell Airy]] born. His achievements will include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian.
File:Gaspard Monge.jpg|link=Gaspard Monge (nonfiction)|1802: Mathematician and engineer [[Gaspard Monge (nonfiction)|Gaspard Monge]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], based on his pioneering work in differential geometry, which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet.jpg|link=Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|1837: [[Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|Peter Dirichlet]] presented his first analytic number theory paper at a meeting of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. He proved the fundamental theorem that bears his name: Every arithmetical sequence an + b, n = 0, 1, 2, ... of integers, where a and b are relatively prime, contains infinitely many primes.  
File:Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet.jpg|link=Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|1837: [[Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|Peter Dirichlet]] presented his first analytic number theory paper at a meeting of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. He proved the fundamental theorem that bears his name: Every arithmetical sequence an + b, n = 0, 1, 2, ... of integers, where a and b are relatively prime, contains infinitely many primes.  
Line 54: Line 52:


||1931: Auguste Forel dies ... myrmecologist, neuroanatomist, psychiatrist and eugenicist, notable for his investigations into the structure of the human brain and that of ants. For example, he is considered a co-founder of the neuron theory. Forel is also known for his early contributions to sexology and psychology. Pic.
||1931: Auguste Forel dies ... myrmecologist, neuroanatomist, psychiatrist and eugenicist, notable for his investigations into the structure of the human brain and that of ants. For example, he is considered a co-founder of the neuron theory. Forel is also known for his early contributions to sexology and psychology. Pic.
File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.


File:Gary Gygax Gen Con 2007.jpg|link=Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|1938: Game designer [[Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|Gary Gygax]] born.
File:Gary Gygax Gen Con 2007.jpg|link=Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|1938: Game designer [[Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|Gary Gygax]] born.
Line 71: Line 67:


File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1974: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)]]: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1974: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)]]: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.
File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1974: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] says that "it's about time the House Judiciary Committee got busy impeaching Nixon."


||1982: Joseph Oscar Irwin dies ... statistician who advanced the use of statistical methods in biological assay and other fields of laboratory medicine. Irwin’s grasp of modern mathematical statistics distinguished him not only from older medical statisticians like Major Greenwood but contemporaries like Austin Bradford Hill. Pic.
||1982: Joseph Oscar Irwin dies ... statistician who advanced the use of statistical methods in biological assay and other fields of laboratory medicine. Irwin’s grasp of modern mathematical statistics distinguished him not only from older medical statisticians like Major Greenwood but contemporaries like Austin Bradford Hill. Pic.
Line 85: Line 79:


||2015: John William Scott "Ian" Cassels dies ... mathematician ... writing a series of papers connecting the Selmer group with Galois cohomology and laying some of the foundations of the modern theory of infinite descent[citation needed]. His best-known single result may be the proof that the Tate-Shafarevich group, if it is finite, must have order that is a square; the proof being by construction of an alternating form. Pic: http://www.learn-math.info/mathematicians/historyDetail.htm?id=Cassels&menuH=wiki
||2015: John William Scott "Ian" Cassels dies ... mathematician ... writing a series of papers connecting the Selmer group with Galois cohomology and laying some of the foundations of the modern theory of infinite descent[citation needed]. His best-known single result may be the proof that the Tate-Shafarevich group, if it is finite, must have order that is a square; the proof being by construction of an alternating form. Pic: http://www.learn-math.info/mathematicians/historyDetail.htm?id=Cassels&menuH=wiki
File:Creature_4.jpg|link=Creature 4 (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Creature 4 (nonfiction)|Creature 4]]'' stolen from the [[Nested Radical]] coffeehouse in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] by agents of the [[House of Malevecchio]].


</gallery>
</gallery>

Latest revision as of 10:23, 7 February 2022