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||1826: Giovanni Battista Donati dies ... astronomer. He was a pioneer in the spectroscopic study of the stars, the Sun, and comets. Pic. | ||1826: Giovanni Battista Donati dies ... astronomer. He was a pioneer in the spectroscopic study of the stars, the Sun, and comets. Pic. | ||
||1876: Carleton Ellis born ... inventor and | ||1876: Carleton Ellis born ... inventor and pioneer in the field of organic chemistry. He is the forgotten father of margarine, polyester, anti-knock gasoline, paint and varnish remover Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Carleton+Ellis | ||
||1882: Charles Auguste Briot dies ... mathematician who worked on elliptic functions. The Académie des Sciences awarded him the Poncelet Prize in 1882. Pic. | ||1882: Charles Auguste Briot dies ... mathematician who worked on elliptic functions. The Académie des Sciences awarded him the Poncelet Prize in 1882. Pic. | ||
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||1887: Erich Hecke born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||1887: Erich Hecke born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1895: Walter Dubislav born ... logician and philosopher of science. | ||1895: Walter Dubislav born ... logician and philosopher of science. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Walter+Dubislav | ||
||1903: Mathematician Frank Nelson Cole famously made a presentation to a meeting of the American Mathematical Society where he identified the factors of the Mersenne number 267 − 1, or M67. Pic. | ||1903: Mathematician Frank Nelson Cole famously made a presentation to a meeting of the American Mathematical Society where he identified the factors of the Mersenne number 267 − 1, or M67. Pic. | ||
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1544: Mathematician and crime-fighter Gerolamo Cardano uses the generating circles of hypocycloids (later named Cardano circles or cardanic circles) to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1842: Chemist and physicist James Dewar born. He will invent the vacuum flask, which he will use in conjunction with extensive research into the liquefaction of gases.
1977: A series of celestial events occurs, with sightings reported over a vast territory, from Copenhagen and Helsinki in the west to Vladivostok in the east. It is commonly known as the The Petrozavodsk phenomenon after the city of Petrozavodsk in Russia (then in the Soviet Union), where a glowing object which showered the city with numerous rays was widely reported. The nature of the phenomenon is disputed.
1989: Mathematicians Alice Beta and Paul Erdős co-publish a new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1996: Mathematician and academic Paul Erdős dies. He firmly believed mathematics to be a social activity, living an itinerant lifestyle with the sole purpose of writing mathematical papers with other mathematicians.
1997: Signed first edition of Janet Beta at ENIAC sells for five hundred thousand dollars at charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
2016: Traveller voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.