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||1635: Johann Faulhaber dies | File:Ioannes Faulhaberus Mathematicus Imperialis Ulmæ Natus.png|link=Johann Faulhaber (nonfiction)|1635: Mathematician [[Johann Faulhaber (nonfiction)|Johann Faulhaber]] dies. Faulhaber calculated the sums of powers of integers. | ||
||1732: Jacques d'Allonville dies ... astronomer and mathematician. Pic search. | ||1732: Jacques d'Allonville dies ... astronomer and mathematician. Pic search. | ||
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||1941: Stephen Jay Gould born ... paleontologist, biologist, and author. Pic. | ||1941: Stephen Jay Gould born ... paleontologist, biologist, and author. Pic. | ||
||1956: Astronomer Robert Julius Trumpler dies. He will observe that the brightness of the more distant open clusters is lower than expected, and the stars appear more red, a phenomenon caused by interstellar dust absorbing interstellar light. | ||1956: Astronomer Robert Julius Trumpler dies. He will observe that the brightness of the more distant open clusters is lower than expected, and the stars appear more red, a phenomenon caused by interstellar dust absorbing interstellar light. Pic. | ||
||1966: Emil Julius Gumbel dies ... mathematician and statistician. Gumbel was instrumental in the development of extreme value theory, along with Leonard Tippett and Ronald Fisher. He also derived and analyzed the probability distribution that is now known as the Gumbel distribution in his honor. Pic search. | ||1966: Emil Julius Gumbel dies ... mathematician and statistician. Gumbel was instrumental in the development of extreme value theory, along with Leonard Tippett and Ronald Fisher. He also derived and analyzed the probability distribution that is now known as the Gumbel distribution in his honor. Pic search. | ||
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||1975: George Paget Thomson dies ... physicist and academic ... discovered of the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction. Pic. | ||1975: George Paget Thomson dies ... physicist and academic ... discovered of the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction. Pic. | ||
File:Dalton Trumbo prison 1950.jpg|link=Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|1976: Screenwriter and novelist [[Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|Dalton Trumbo]] dies. He was blacklisted for refusing testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947; while blacklisted, he won Academy Awards for two films: ''Roman Holiday'', attributed to a front author, and ''The Brave One'' under the pseudonym Robert Rich. | File:Dalton Trumbo prison 1950.jpg|link=Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|1976: Screenwriter and novelist [[Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|Dalton Trumbo]] dies. He was blacklisted for refusing testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947; while blacklisted, he won Academy Awards for two films: ''Roman Holiday'', attributed to a front author, and ''The Brave One'' under the pseudonym Robert Rich. | ||
||1983: Felix Bloch dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1983: Felix Bloch dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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||2014: Edward Nelson dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||2014: Edward Nelson dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
File:Greedy algorithm 36 cents.svg|link=Greedy algorithm (nonfiction)|2017: New study of algorithmic paradigms finds that [[Greedy algorithm (nonfiction)|Greedy algorithms]] are studied more often than other algorithmic paradigms | |File:Greedy algorithm 36 cents.svg|link=Greedy algorithm (nonfiction)|2017: New study of algorithmic paradigms finds that [[Greedy algorithm (nonfiction)|Greedy algorithms]] are studied more often than other algorithmic paradigms. | ||
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1635: Mathematician Johann Faulhaber dies. Faulhaber calculated the sums of powers of integers.
1749: Mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet born. She translated and commented upon on Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica.
1849: Mathematician and philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce born. He wil be remembered as "the father of pragmatism".
1892: American physicist and academic Arthur Compton born. He will win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, demonstrating the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.
1976: Screenwriter and novelist Dalton Trumbo dies. He was blacklisted for refusing testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947; while blacklisted, he won Academy Awards for two films: Roman Holiday, attributed to a front author, and The Brave One under the pseudonym Robert Rich.
