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||1593 – Matthäus Merian, Swiss-German engraver and cartographer (d. 1650) | ||1593 – Matthäus Merian, Swiss-German engraver and cartographer (d. 1650) | ||
File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|1624: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] | File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|1624: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] captures unprecedented images of Renaissance-era [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1703 – Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1622) | ||1703 – Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1622) | ||
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1547: Philologist, mathematician, astronomer, and poet Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin born. His prolific and versatile genius will produce a great variety of works, but his reckless life and libelous letters will lead to imprisonment.
1624: Math photographer Cantor Parabola captures unprecedented images of Renaissance-era crimes against mathematical constants.
1974: Physicist Winfried Otto Schumann dies. He predicted the existence of Schumann resonances, a series of low-frequency resonances caused by lightning discharges in the atmosphere.
1976: Mathematician and crime-fighter Shoshichi Kobayashi uses transformation groups of geometric structures to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2012: Mathematician, author, activist, and academic Irving Adler dies. He was a plaintiff in the McCarthy-era case Adler vs. Board of Education.
2013: Signed first edition of Skip Digits, Conductor stolen; US Treasury investigators say money trail leads to Baron Zersetzung.