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||1884 – Georges Imbert, French chemical engineer and inventor (d. 1950) | ||1884 – Georges Imbert, French chemical engineer and inventor (d. 1950) | ||
||Theodore Samuel Motzkin (26 March 1908 – 15 December 1970) was an Israeli-American mathematician.[ | ||Theodore Samuel Motzkin (26 March 1908 – 15 December 1970) was an Israeli-American mathematician. | ||
File:Carl Gottfried Neumann.jpg|link=Carl Gottfried Neumann (nonfiction)|1909: Mathematician [[Carl Gottfried Neumann (nonfiction)|Carl Gottfried Neumann]] uses the finite propagation of electrodynamic actions to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||1910 – Auguste Charlois, French astronomer (b. 1864) | ||1910 – Auguste Charlois, French astronomer (b. 1864) | ||
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1773: American captain and mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch born. He will be a founder of modern maritime navigation; his book The New American Practical Navigator, first published in 1802, will be carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel.
1792: Poet and wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use as scrying engine.
1793: Physician and engineer John Mudge dies. He was the first self-proclaimed civil engineer, and often regarded as the "father of civil engineering".
1909: Mathematician Carl Gottfried Neumann uses the finite propagation of electrodynamic actions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1913: Mathematician and academic Paul Erdős born. He will firmly believe mathematics to be a social activity, living an itinerant lifestyle with the sole purpose of writing mathematical papers with other mathematicians.