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File:Christian Egenolff.jpg|link=Christian Egenolff (nonfiction)|1502: [[Christian Egenolff (nonfiction)|Christian Egenolff]] born. He will be the first important printer and publisher operating from Frankfurt-am-Main. | File:Christian Egenolff.jpg|link=Christian Egenolff (nonfiction)|1502: [[Christian Egenolff (nonfiction)|Christian Egenolff]] born. He will be the first important printer and publisher operating from Frankfurt-am-Main. | ||
||1165: Ibn Arabi born ... philosopher. His cosmological teachings became the dominant worldview in many parts of the Islamic world. Pic. | ||1165: Ibn Arabi born ... philosopher. His cosmological teachings became the dominant worldview in many parts of the Islamic world. Pic. | ||
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||1947: Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council. | ||1947: Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council. | ||
||1958: Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched. | ||1958: Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched. | ||
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||2013: Harley Flanders dies ... mathematician and academic ... algebra and algebraic number theory, linear algebra, electrical networks, scientific computing. Pic search. | ||2013: Harley Flanders dies ... mathematician and academic ... algebra and algebraic number theory, linear algebra, electrical networks, scientific computing. Pic search. | ||
||2016: Roy Lee Adler dies ... mathematician. He studied dynamical systems, ergodic theory, symbolic and topological dynamics and coding theory. Pic. | ||2016: Roy Lee Adler dies ... mathematician. He studied dynamical systems, ergodic theory, symbolic and topological dynamics and coding theory. Pic. | ||
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1502: Christian Egenolff born. He will be the first important printer and publisher operating from Frankfurt-am-Main.
1684: Mathematician and philosopher Elena Cornaro Piscopia dies. She was one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university, and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
1894: Writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley born. He will be widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time.
1918: Emmy Noether introduced what became known as Noether's theorem, from which conservation laws are deduced for symmetries of angular momentum, linear momentum, and energy.
1925: Mathematician, logician, and philosopher Gottlob Frege dies. Though largely ignored during his lifetime, his work influenced later generations of logicians and philosophers.
1941: Mathematician and academic Henri Lebesgue dies. He developed a theory of integration which generalizes the 17th century concept of integration (summing the area between an axis and the curve of a function defined for that axis).
1997: Mathematician and academic Kunihiko Kodaira dies. He did distinguished work in algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds, winning the Fields medal in 1954.
2000: Mathematician and academic John Tukey dies. He made important contributions to statistical analysis, including the box plot.