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||Marino Ghetaldi (b. 2 October 1568) was a Ragusan scientist. A mathematician and physicist who studied in Italy, England and Belgium, his best results are mainly in physics, especially optics, and mathematics.
||1568: Marino Ghetaldi born ... scientist. A mathematician and physicist who studied in Italy, England and Belgium, his best results are mainly in physics, especially optics, and mathematics.


File:Bernardino Telesio.jpg|link=Bernardino Telesio (nonfiction)|1588: Philosopher and scientist [[Bernardino Telesio (nonfiction)|Bernardino Telesio]] dies. While his natural theories were later disproven, his emphasis on observation influenced the emergence of the scientific method.
File:Bernardino Telesio.jpg|link=Bernardino Telesio (nonfiction)|1588: Philosopher and scientist [[Bernardino Telesio (nonfiction)|Bernardino Telesio]] dies. While his natural theories were later disproven, his emphasis on observation influenced the emergence of the scientific method.
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File:Michele_Mercati_by_Petrus_Nellus.jpg|link=Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|1589: Physician, archaeologist, and crime-fighter [[Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|Michele Mercati]] publishes study of prehistoric stone tools, including evidence of prehistoric [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Michele_Mercati_by_Petrus_Nellus.jpg|link=Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|1589: Physician, archaeologist, and crime-fighter [[Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|Michele Mercati]] publishes study of prehistoric stone tools, including evidence of prehistoric [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1804 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French engineer (b. 1725)
File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1667: Mathematician and physicist [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]] becomes a fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He had earned his bachelor's degree in 1665 and then spent two years at home in Lincolnshire inventing much of differential and integral calculus while Cambridge was closed due to plague.  


||Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann (b. October 2, 1826) was a German physicist known mostly for his literary work. Pic.
||1804: Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot dies ... engineer.


||1852 – William Ramsay, Scottish-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
||1826: Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann born ... physicist known mostly for his literary work. Pic.


||1853 – François Arago, French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and politician, 25th Prime Minister of France (b. 1786)
||1852: William Ramsay born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1854 – Patrick Geddes, Scottish biologist, sociologist, geographer, and philanthropist (d. 1932)
||1853: François Arago dies ... mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and politician, 25th Prime Minister of France.
 
||1854: Patrick Geddes born ... biologist, sociologist, geographer, and philanthropist (d. 1932)


File:François Arago.jpg|link=François Arago (nonfiction)|1853: Mathematician and politician [[François Arago (nonfiction)|François Arago]] born.  He observed that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect now known as eddy current.  
File:François Arago.jpg|link=François Arago (nonfiction)|1853: Mathematician and politician [[François Arago (nonfiction)|François Arago]] born.  He observed that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect now known as eddy current.  
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File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|2007: Signed first edition of ''[[The Safe-Cracker]]'' provides clues which lead to the arrest and imprisonment of [[math criminals]].
File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|2007: Signed first edition of ''[[The Safe-Cracker]]'' provides clues which lead to the arrest and imprisonment of [[math criminals]].


||Shaun Wylie (d. 2 October 2009) was a British mathematician and World War II codebreaker.
||2009: Shaun Wylie dies ... mathematician and World War II codebreaker.


||2013 – Abraham Nemeth, American mathematician and academic (b. 1918)
||2013: Abraham Nemeth dies ... mathematician and academic.


|File:Edward Lorenz.jpg|link=Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|1998: Mathematician [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]] awarded Pulitzer Prize for advances in [[high-energy literature]] theory.
|File:Epic of Gilgamesh tablet V.jpg|link=Literature (nonfiction)|1999: [[Literature (nonfiction)|Gilgamesh tablet]] unhappy about missing sections, demands [[high-energy literature]] therapy.
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  • 1588: Philosopher and scientist Bernardino Telesio dies. While his natural theories were later disproven, his emphasis on observation influenced the emergence of the scientific method.

    1588: Philosopher and scientist Bernardino Telesio dies. While his natural theories were later disproven, his emphasis on observation influenced the emergence of the scientific method.

  • 1589: Physician, archaeologist, and crime-fighter Michele Mercati publishes study of prehistoric stone tools, including evidence of prehistoric crimes against mathematical constants.

    1589: Physician, archaeologist, and crime-fighter Michele Mercati publishes study of prehistoric stone tools, including evidence of prehistoric crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1667: Mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton becomes a fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He had earned his bachelor's degree in 1665 and then spent two years at home in Lincolnshire inventing much of differential and integral calculus while Cambridge was closed due to plague.

    1667: Mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton becomes a fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He had earned his bachelor's degree in 1665 and then spent two years at home in Lincolnshire inventing much of differential and integral calculus while Cambridge was closed due to plague.

  • 1853: Mathematician and politician François Arago born. He observed that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect now known as eddy current.

    1853: Mathematician and politician François Arago born. He observed that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect now known as eddy current.

  • 1963: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter John Crank uses the Crank–Nicolson method to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1963: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter John Crank uses the Crank–Nicolson method to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 2006: Mathematician and academic Paul Halmos dies. He made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces).

    2006: Mathematician and academic Paul Halmos dies. He made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces).

  • 2007: Signed first edition of The Safe-Cracker provides clues which lead to the arrest and imprisonment of math criminals.

    2007: Signed first edition of The Safe-Cracker provides clues which lead to the arrest and imprisonment of math criminals.

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