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||1913 – Israel Gelfand, Russian-American mathematician and biologist (d. 2009) | ||1913 – Israel Gelfand, Russian-American mathematician and biologist (d. 2009) | ||
||Elling Bolt Holst (d. 2 September 1915) was a Norwegian mathematician, biographer and children's writer. | |||
||1923 – René Thom, French mathematician, biologist, and academic (d. 2002) | ||1923 – René Thom, French mathematician, biologist, and academic (d. 2002) | ||
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1768: French mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux dies. He made a living manufacturing sundials.
1865: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician William Rowan Hamilton dies. He made important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the quaternion.
1947: Mathematician and crimefighter Haskell Curry publishes new theory of combinatory logic which uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1948: Archaeologist and spy Sylvanus Morley dies. He conducted espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities only came to light well after his death.
1999: Signed first edition of The Eel Escapes Hydrolab sells for one and a half million dollars.
2017: Quaternion multiplication table sells for two million dollars.