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||Francesco Maurolico (d. 21/22 July 1575) was a mathematician and astronomer. He made contributions to the fields of geometry, optics, conics, mechanics, music, and astronomy. | ||Francesco Maurolico (d. 21/22 July 1575) was a mathematician and astronomer. He made contributions to the fields of geometry, optics, conics, mechanics, music, and astronomy. | ||
||1694: Johann Bernoulli sends "L'Hospital's rule" to L'Hospital under the terms of their agreement of 17 March 1694. Pic. | |||
||File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1707: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]]'s uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to design improved [[Airship (nonfiction)|airship]]. | ||File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1707: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]]'s uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to design improved [[Airship (nonfiction)|airship]]. |
Revision as of 11:50, 23 July 2018
1826: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi dies. He discovered dwarf planet Ceres.
1827: Gem detective and astronomer Niles Cartouchian discovers time crystals on the dwarf planet Ceres.
1827: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming dies. He proposed worldwide standard time zones.
1932: Inventor Reginald Fessenden dies. He performed pioneering experiments in radio, including the use of continuous waves and the early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music.
1962: Engineer, pilot, and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt tries to warn NASA that Mariner 1 has been targeted by math criminals.
1962: Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
2017: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.