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||1891 – Helena Blavatsky, Russian-English mystic and author (b. 1831)
||1891 – Helena Blavatsky, Russian-English mystic and author (b. 1831)
||Karol Borsuk (b. May 8, 1905) was a Polish mathematician. His main interest was topology. Borsuk introduced the theory of absolute retracts (ARs) and absolute neighborhood retracts (ANRs), and the cohomotopy groups, later called Borsuk–Spanier cohomotopy groups. He also founded Shape theory. He has constructed various beautiful examples of topological spaces, e.g. an acyclic, 3-dimensional continuum which admits a fixed point free homeomorphism onto itself; also 2-dimensional, contractible polyhedra which have no free edge. His topological and geometric conjectures and themes stimulated research for more than half a century.


||1920 – Saul Bass, American graphic designer and director (d. 1996)
||1920 – Saul Bass, American graphic designer and director (d. 1996)

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  • 1788: Physician, geologist, and botanist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli dies. He has been called the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire".

    1788: Physician, geologist, and botanist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli dies. He has been called the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire".

  • 1789: Advances in dynastic cellular automata theory reveal new members of Bernoulli family.

    1789: Advances in dynastic cellular automata theory reveal new members of Bernoulli family.

  • 1794: Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale, is tried, convicted and guillotined in one day in Paris.

    1794: Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale, is tried, convicted and guillotined in one day in Paris.

  • 1872: Adventurer Wallace War-Heels defeats alleged criminal mastermind Baron Zersetzung in single combat.

    1872: Adventurer Wallace War-Heels defeats alleged criminal mastermind Baron Zersetzung in single combat.

  • 1873: Economist, civil servant, and philosopher John Stuart Mill dies. He was one of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, and the first Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage.

    1873: Economist, civil servant, and philosopher John Stuart Mill dies. He was one of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, and the first Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage.

  • 1953: Rhizolith Group debuts new work based on the Bernoulli family.

    1953: Rhizolith Group debuts new work based on the Bernoulli family.

  • 1960: Mathematician and academic J. H. C. Whitehead dies. During the Second World War, he worked with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.

    1960: Mathematician and academic J. H. C. Whitehead dies. During the Second World War, he worked with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.

  • 2014: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.

    2014: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.

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