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|File:Ludolf van Ceulen.jpg|link=Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|1562: Mathematician and fencer [[Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|Ludolph van Ceulen]] demonstrates new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |File:Ludolf van Ceulen.jpg|link=Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|1562: Mathematician and fencer [[Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|Ludolph van Ceulen]] demonstrates new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||Abraham Sharp (d. 18 July 1742) was an English mathematician and astronomer. Pic. | |||
||Thomas Jones (d. 18 July 1807) was Head Tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge for twenty years and an outstanding teacher of mathematics. | ||Thomas Jones (d. 18 July 1807) was Head Tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge for twenty years and an outstanding teacher of mathematics. |
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1853: Physicist and academic Hendrik Lorentz born. He will share the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.
1960: Electronics researcher Ralph Hartley publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions with a wide range of applications in electronic devices used to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1966: Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
1967: Engineer, pilot, and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt tells fellow astronauts that Gemini 10 "was an inspiration to us all."
1997: Geologist and astronomer Eugene Merle Shoemaker dies. Shoemaker was the first scientist to conclude that Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, and similar craters, were caused by meteor impact.
2017: Judge Havelock With Glass wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "a prescient study of emerging information technologies in mid-1800's America."