Template:Selected anniversaries/February 3
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1581: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke develops new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on tangents and secants.
1767: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi uses scrying engine to pre-visualize the dwarf planet Ceres.
1929: Mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang dies. He invented the fields of traffic engineering, queueing theory, and telephone networks analysis.
1954: Lex Luthor planning new autobiographical film, asks Linus Pauling to play the title role.
1954: Linus Pauling says he is "flattered, but cannot possibly accept" offer to play Lex Luthor in planned film.
2016: Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting."