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File:A Narrow Escape.jpg|link=Narrow escape problem (nonfiction)|American Civil War officer demonstrates [[Narrow escape problem (nonfiction)|Narrow escape problem]]. | ||1433 – Marsilio Ficino, Italian astrologer and philosopher (d. 1499) | ||
File:Cantor set (four iterations).png|link=The Sigil (crime fighter)|Crime-fighter [[The Sigil (crime fighter)|The Sigil]] vows to teach [[Crimes against mathematical constants|math criminals]] a [[Set theory (nonfiction)|Set theory]] lesson they will not soon forget. | |||
File:Brownian ratchet.png|link=Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|[[Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|Brownian ratchet]] may be cover story for [[Brownian racket]], according to [[John Brunner]]. | ||1605 – Thomas Browne, English physician and author (d. 1682) | ||
File:Léon Brillouin 1927.jpg|link=Léon Brillouin (nonfiction)|[[Léon Brillouin (nonfiction)|Léon Brillouin]] denies making blood pact with [[Maxwell's demon (nonfiction)|Maxwell's demon]]. | |||
File:Maxwell's_demon.svg|link=Maxwell's demon (nonfiction)|[[Maxwell's demon (nonfiction)|Maxwell's demon]] not so bad once you get to know [[Mathematics|the math]], says [[Léon Brillouin (nonfiction)|Léon Brillouin]]. | ||1682 – Thomas Browne, English physician and author (b. 1605) | ||
File:Claude Shannon.jpg|link=Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|[[Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|Claude Shannon]] has that "[[Information theory (nonfiction)|information theory]]" gleam in his eye. | |||
File:Hilbert_curve.gif|link=Hilbert Curve (nonfiction)|Traditional [[Hilbert curve (nonfiction)|Hilbert curve]] powerless against [[Demon (nonfiction)|demons]], says Writer-Sorceror [[Roger Zelazny]]. | ||1688 – William Cheselden, English surgeon and anatomist (d. 1752) | ||
File:Neptune_Slaughter_menaces_Project_Iceworm.jpg|link=Project Iceworm (nonfiction)|Supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] manifests as gigantic ice worm, menaces [[Project Iceworm (nonfiction)|Project Iceworm]]. | |||
||1815 – Paolo Mascagni, Italian physician and anatomist (b. 1755) | |||
||1897 – Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani chemist and scholar (d. 1994) | |||
||1900 – Max Planck discovers the law of black-body radiation (Planck's law). | |||
||1909 – Marguerite Perey, French physicist and academic (d. 1975) | |||
||1910 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995) | |||
||1937 – Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871) | |||
||1943 – Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University. | |||
||1944 – Dénes Kőnig, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1884) | |||
||1973 – President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes. | |||
||1987 – The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf. | |||
||1992 – Magnus Pyke, English scientist and television host (b. 1908) | |||
||2002 – Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Russian physicist and astronaut (b. 1932) | |||
||2007 – Winifred Asprey, American mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1917) | |||
|File:A Narrow Escape.jpg|link=Narrow escape problem (nonfiction)|American Civil War officer demonstrates [[Narrow escape problem (nonfiction)|Narrow escape problem]]. | |||
|File:Cantor set (four iterations).png|link=The Sigil (crime fighter)|Crime-fighter [[The Sigil (crime fighter)|The Sigil]] vows to teach [[Crimes against mathematical constants|math criminals]] a [[Set theory (nonfiction)|Set theory]] lesson they will not soon forget. | |||
|File:Brownian ratchet.png|link=Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|[[Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|Brownian ratchet]] may be cover story for [[Brownian racket]], according to [[John Brunner]]. | |||
|File:Léon Brillouin 1927.jpg|link=Léon Brillouin (nonfiction)|[[Léon Brillouin (nonfiction)|Léon Brillouin]] denies making blood pact with [[Maxwell's demon (nonfiction)|Maxwell's demon]]. | |||
|File:Maxwell's_demon.svg|link=Maxwell's demon (nonfiction)|[[Maxwell's demon (nonfiction)|Maxwell's demon]] not so bad once you get to know [[Mathematics|the math]], says [[Léon Brillouin (nonfiction)|Léon Brillouin]]. | |||
|File:Claude Shannon.jpg|link=Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|[[Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|Claude Shannon]] has that "[[Information theory (nonfiction)|information theory]]" gleam in his eye. | |||
|File:Hilbert_curve.gif|link=Hilbert Curve (nonfiction)|Traditional [[Hilbert curve (nonfiction)|Hilbert curve]] powerless against [[Demon (nonfiction)|demons]], says Writer-Sorceror [[Roger Zelazny]]. | |||
|File:Neptune_Slaughter_menaces_Project_Iceworm.jpg|link=Project Iceworm (nonfiction)|Supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] manifests as gigantic ice worm, menaces [[Project Iceworm (nonfiction)|Project Iceworm]]. | |||
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