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||1989 – A solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects micro chips, leading to a halt of all trading on Toronto's stock market. | ||1989 – A solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects micro chips, leading to a halt of all trading on Toronto's stock market. | ||
||Thomas Brooke Benjamin ( | ||Thomas Brooke Benjamin (d. 16 August 1995) was an English mathematical physicist and mathematician, best known for his work in mathematical analysis and fluid mechanics, especially in applications of nonlinear differential equations. Pic. | ||
||2013 – David Rees, Welsh mathematician and academic (b. 1918) | ||2013 – David Rees, Welsh mathematician and academic (b. 1918) | ||
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1650: Monk, cosmographer, and cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli born. He will gain fame for his atlases and globes; some of the globes will be very large and highly detailed.
1694: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Christiaan Huygens reveals in autobiography that he uses statistical analysis and games of chance to catch math criminals in the act.
1705: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli dies. He discovered the fundamental mathematical constant e, and made important contributions to the field of probability.
1821: Mathematician and academic Arthur Cayley born. He will be the first to define the concept of a group in the modern way, as a set with a binary operation satisfying certain laws.
1899: Chemist and academic Robert Bunsen dies. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff.
2017: Researchers publish new evidence that "suicide-by-Ultravore" is on the rise.