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||Marshall Hall, Jr. (b. 17 September 1910) was an American mathematician who made significant contributions to group theory and combinatorics. | ||Marshall Hall, Jr. (b. 17 September 1910) was an American mathematician who made significant contributions to group theory and combinatorics. | ||
||David Gilbarg (b. 17 September 1918) was an American mathematician, and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. Gilbarg was co-author, together with his student Neil Trudinger, of the book Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order. | ||David Gilbarg (b. 17 September 1918) was an American mathematician, and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. Gilbarg was co-author, together with his student Neil Trudinger, of the book ''Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order''. | ||
||1936 – Gerald Guralnik, American physicist and academic (d. 2014) | ||1936 – Gerald Guralnik, American physicist and academic (d. 2014) | ||
||1937 – Walter Dubislav, German logician and philosopher of science, Vienna circle member (b. 1895) | ||1937 – Walter Dubislav, German logician and philosopher of science, Vienna circle member (b. 1895) | ||
||Friedrich Adolf Paneth (d. 17 September 1958) was an Austrian-born British chemist. | |||
||1991 – The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet. | ||1991 – The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet. | ||
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1826: Mathematician and academic Bernhard Riemann born. He will make contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry.
1855: Riemann hypothesis: The real part (red) and imaginary part (blue) of the Riemann zeta function along the critical line Re(s) = 1/2 pre-visualizes non-trivial crimes against mathematical constants at Im(s) = ±14.135, ±21.022 and ±25.011.
1857: Scientist and engineer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky born. He will be one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry and astronautics.
1994: Philosopher and academic Karl Popper dies. He is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favour of empirical falsification: A theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars credits scientist and engineer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky with "inspiring generations of astronauts."