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||2014: Martin Lewis Perl dies ... physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton. Pic. | ||2014: Martin Lewis Perl dies ... physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton. Pic. | ||
||2015: Stanisław Świerczkowski dies ... mathematician famous for his solutions to two iconic problems posed by Hugo Steinhaus: the three-gap theorem and the Non-Tetratorus Theorem. Pic: https://www.amazon.com/Sets-Numbers-Library-Mathematics-Swierczkowski/dp/071007137X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1535988419&sr=1-1 | |||
||2016: Bjarni Jónsson dies ... mathematician and logician working in universal algebra, lattice theory, model theory and set theory. Pic. | ||2016: Bjarni Jónsson dies ... mathematician and logician working in universal algebra, lattice theory, model theory and set theory. Pic. | ||
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1550: Astronomer and mathematician Michael Maestlin born. He will be a mentor to Johannes Kepler, and play a sizable part in his adoption of the Copernican system.
1881: Council of algorithms announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.
1882: Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
1913: Mathematician Samuel Eilenberg born. He will co-found category theory with Saunders Mac Lane, and propose the Eilenberg swindle (a construction applying the telescoping cancellation idea to projective modules).
2018: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden wins three Retroactive Academy Awards for Lifetime Achievement.