Template:Selected anniversaries/February 7
1877: Mathematician and geneticist G. H. Hardy born. He will prefer his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.
1898: Novelist, playwright, and journalist Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'accuse.
1901: Mathematician Giuseppe Peano publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1925: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1944: New class of Crimes against mathematical constants specifically targets cubes.
1945: Cube says that math crimes "affect all of mathematics, not just me."
1946: The United States Army Signal Corps modifies Project Diana antenna to compute new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.