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||1637: Pierre Vernier dies ... was a French mathematician and instrument inventor. He was inventor and eponym of the vernier scale used in measuring devices. Pic: device.
||1637: Pierre Vernier dies ... was a French mathematician and instrument inventor. He was inventor and eponym of the vernier scale used in measuring devices. Pic: device.


||1712 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician, astronomer, and engineer (b. 1625)
||1712: Giovanni Domenico Cassini dies ... mathematician, astronomer, and engineer.


File:Johannes Kies.jpg|link=Johann Kies (nonfiction)|1713: Astronomer and mathematician [[Johann Kies (nonfiction)|Johann Kies]] born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman.
File:Johannes Kies.jpg|link=Johann Kies (nonfiction)|1713: Astronomer and mathematician [[Johann Kies (nonfiction)|Johann Kies]] born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman.


||Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (b. 14 September 1769) was a Prussian polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.
||Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt born ... polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.


||1837 – Nikolai Bugaev, Georgian-Russian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1903)
||1837: Nikolai Bugaev born ... mathematician and philosopher.


||William Edward Ayrton, FRS (b. 14 September 1847) was an English physicist and electrical engineer.
||1847: William Edward Ayrton born ... physicist and electrical engineer.


||Carl August von Steinheil (d. 14 September 1870) was a German physicist, inventor, engineer and astronomer. Pic.
||1870: Carl August von Steinheil dies ... physicist, inventor, engineer and astronomer. Pic.


||Karl Heinrich Emil Becker (b. 14 September 1879) was a German weapons engineer and artillery general. He advocated and implemented close ties of the military to science for purposes of advanced weapons development.
||1879: Karl Heinrich Emil Becker born ... weapons engineer and artillery general. He advocated and implemented close ties of the military to science for purposes of advanced weapons development.


||Karl Taylor Compton (b. September 14, 1887) was a prominent American physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1930 to 1948
||1887: Karl Taylor Compton born ... physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1930 to 1948


||1891 – Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1983) Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov ForMemRS[1](Russian: Ива́н Матве́евич Виногра́дов; IPA: [ɪˈvan mɐtˈvʲejɪvʲɪtɕ vʲɪnɐˈɡradəf] (About this sound listen); 14 September 1891 – 20 March 1983) (not to be confused with Askold Ivanovich Vinogradov of the Bombieri-Vinogradov theorem) was a Soviet mathematician, who was one of the creators of modern analytic number theory,
||1891: Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov born ... mathematician and academic ... one of the creators of modern analytic number theory.


|File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|1893: [[Transdimensional corporation|Transdimensional corporation mascot]] spontaneously generates sales pitch for [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]].
|File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|1893: [[Transdimensional corporation|Transdimensional corporation mascot]] spontaneously generates sales pitch for [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]].
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File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1894: [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] declines to invest in [[transdimensional corporation]], denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1894: [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] declines to invest in [[transdimensional corporation]], denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."


||Franz Rellich (b. September 14, 1906) was an Austrian-German mathematician. He made important contributions in mathematical physics, in particular for the foundations of quantum mechanics and for the theory of partial differential equations. The Rellich–Kondrachov theorem is named after him.
||1906: Franz Rellich born ... mathematician. He made important contributions in mathematical physics, in particular for the foundations of quantum mechanics and for the theory of partial differential equations. The Rellich–Kondrachov theorem is named after him.


||1913 – Rubby Sherr, American physicist and academic (d. 2013)
||1913: Rubby Sherr born ... physicist and academic.


||1916 – José Echegaray, Spanish engineer, mathematician, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
||1916: José Echegaray dies ... engineer, mathematician, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:Pierre Duhem.jpg|link=Pierre Duhem (nonfiction)|1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian [[Pierre Duhem (nonfiction)|Pierre Duhem]] dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."
File:Pierre Duhem.jpg|link=Pierre Duhem (nonfiction)|1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian [[Pierre Duhem (nonfiction)|Pierre Duhem]] dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."
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File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Ypres ruins 1915.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1916:  Time-travelling physician-warrior [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Ypres ruins 1915.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1916:  Time-travelling physician-warrior [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.


||Prof. C. S. Venkataraman (b. 1918), popularly known as CSV, was a Mathematician from Kerala, India. He specialised in the Theory of numbers and his forte was the Theory of Arithmetic Functions. Pic.
||1918: Mathematician C. S. Venkataraman born. He specialised in the Theory of numbers and his forte was the Theory of Arithmetic Functions. Pic.


||1920 – Alberto Calderón, Argentinian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1998)
||1920: Alberto Calderón born ... mathematician and academic.


||John Louis Emil Dreyer (d. September 14, 1926) was a Danish-Irish astronomer.
||1926: John Louis Emil Dreyer dies ... astronomer.


||1930: Eugene I. Gordon born ... physicist and engineer.
||1930: Eugene I. Gordon born ... physicist and engineer.

Revision as of 08:57, 16 August 2018

  • 1713: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman.

    1713: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman.

  • 1894: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."

    1894: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."

  • 1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."

    1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."

  • 1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.

    1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.

  • 1960: The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.

    1960: The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.

  • 2015: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.

    2015: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.

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