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|File:Maimonides.jpg|link=Maimonides (nonfiction)|1165: Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, and physician [[Maimonides (nonfiction)|Maimonides]] questions morality of [[scrying engines]].


||Richard Dunthorne (d. 3 March 1775) was an English astronomer and surveyor, who worked in Cambridge as astronomical and scientific assistant to Roger Long
File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1845: Mathematician and philosopher '''[[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]]''' born. He will invent [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]], a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.


||Aleksandr Nikolayevich Korkin (b. 3 March [O.S. 19 February] 1837) was a Russian mathematician. He made contribution to the development of partial differential equations, and was second only to Chebyshev among the founders of the Saint Petersburg Mathematical School.
File:Alexander Graham Bell.jpg|link=Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|1847:  Engineer, inventor, and academic '''[[Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|Alexander Graham Bell]]''' born. He will patent the telephone in 1876.


File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1845: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] born.  He will invent [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]], a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.
File:Minnesota Quaternary geologic map.jpg|link=Minnesota (nonfiction)|1849 – The Territory of '''[[Minnesota (nonfiction)|Minnesota]]''' was created.


File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1847: Engineer and inventor [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Emil Artin.jpg|link=Emil Artin (nonfiction)|1898: Mathematician '''[[Emil Artin (nonfiction)|Emil Artin]]''' born. He will work on algebraic number theory, contributing to class field theory and a new construction of L-functions. He also contributed to the pure theories of rings, groups and fields.


File:Alexander Graham Bell.jpg|link=Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|1847: Engineer, inventor, and academic [[Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|Alexander Graham Bell]] born. He will patent the telephone in 1876.
File:Paul Halmos.jpg|link=Paul Halmos (nonfiction)|1916: Mathematician and academic '''[[Paul Halmos (nonfiction)|Paul Halmos]]''' born. He will make fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces).  


File:Jacquard loom with two children and a dog (circa 1877).jpg|link=Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|1876: Children reprogram [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|Jacquard loom]] to compute new family of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
File:Peter Giblets.jpg|link=Peter Giblets|2017: Steganographic analysis of '''[[Peter Giblets]]''' illustration unexpectedly reveals "at least a terabyte of encrypted data, apparently a 'Best of Peter Giblets' compilation."


||William Kingdon Clifford FRS (d. 3 March 1879) was an English mathematician and philosopher. Building on the work of Hermann Grassmann, he introduced what is now termed geometric algebra, a special case of the Clifford algebra named in his honour.
File:Emil Artin.jpg|link=Emil Artin (nonfiction)|1898: Mathematician [[Emil Artin (nonfiction)|Emil Artin]] born. He will work on algebraic number theory, contributing to class field theory and a new construction of L-functions. He also contributed to the pure theories of rings, groups and fields.
File:Paul Halmos.jpg|link=Paul Halmos (nonfiction)|1916: Mathematician and academic [[Paul Halmos (nonfiction)|Paul Halmos]] born. He will make fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces).
||Sewall Green Wright (December 21, 1889 – March 3, 1988) was an American geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his work on path analysis.
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