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||August Joseph Ignaz Toepler (d. 6 March 1912) was a German physicist known for his experiments in electrostatics. Pic. | ||August Joseph Ignaz Toepler (d. 6 March 1912) was a German physicist known for his experiments in electrostatics. Pic. | ||
||Akiva Moiseevich Yaglom (b. 6 March 1921) was a Soviet and Jewish physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist. He was known for his contributions to the statistical theory of turbulence and theory of random processes. Pic. | |||
||1927 – Gordon Cooper, American engineer, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2004) | ||1927 – Gordon Cooper, American engineer, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2004) | ||
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1665: The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, publishes the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
1846: Social activist and alleged superhero The Governess warns the United States of America not to begin its upcoming Civil War ahead of schedule.
1847: Mathematician Cesare Arzelà born. He will contribute to the theory of functions, notably his characterization of sequences of continuous functions.
1876: Mathematician Thomas Joannes Stieltjes uses continued fraction theory to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1939: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand von Lindemann dies. He proved (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number.
1981: Modern dance company Rhizolith Group debuts new work based on the life of Ayn Rand.
1982: Writer and philosopher Ayn Rand dies.
2017: The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling awarded Pulitzer Prize, declared "the most entertaining illustration of the year."