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File:Clock Head 2.jpg|link=Clock Head 2|1923: [[Clock Head 2]] remembers mathematician and electrical engineer [[Charles Proteus Steinmetz (nonfiction)|Charles Proteus Steinmetz]] as "a genius, and a true friend."
File:Clock Head 2.jpg|link=Clock Head 2|1923: [[Clock Head 2]] remembers mathematician and electrical engineer [[Charles Proteus Steinmetz (nonfiction)|Charles Proteus Steinmetz]] as "a genius, and a true friend."
||1930: Walter Feit born ... mathematician who worked in finite group theory and representation theory. Pic.


||1930: Waldemar Haffkine born ... physician and microbiologist.
||1930: Waldemar Haffkine born ... physician and microbiologist.
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||1957: Gerty Cori dies ... biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1957: Gerty Cori dies ... biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (d. 26 October 1968) was a Russian and Soviet mathematician of Jewish origin known for contributions to partial differential equations, differential geometry, probability theory, and approximation theory. Pic.
||1968: Mathematician Sergei Bernstein dies ... known for contributions to partial differential equations, differential geometry, probability theory, and approximation theory. Pic.


||1968 – Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission.
||1968: Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission.


File:Howard Aiken.jpg|link=Howard H. Aiken (nonfiction)|1969: Physicist and computer scientist [[Howard H. Aiken (nonfiction)|Howard H. Aiken]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which compute and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Howard Aiken.jpg|link=Howard H. Aiken (nonfiction)|1969: Physicist and computer scientist [[Howard H. Aiken (nonfiction)|Howard H. Aiken]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which compute and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert (d. 26 October 1970) was a Dutch astronomer of Belgian origin. He will be a pioneer of solar research, specializing in spectroscopy and the study of stellar atmospheres. Minnaert was also interested in bubbles and musical nature of the sounds made by running water (see Minnaert resonance).  Pic.
||1970: Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert dies ... astronomer of Belgian origin. He will be a pioneer of solar research, specializing in spectroscopy and the study of stellar atmospheres. Minnaert was also interested in bubbles and musical nature of the sounds made by running water (see Minnaert resonance).  Pic.


File:Igor Sikorsky 1914.jpg|link=Igor Sikorsky (nonfiction)|1972: Aircraft designer [[Igor Sikorsky (nonfiction)|Igor Sikorsky]] dies. He pioneered both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
File:Igor Sikorsky 1914.jpg|link=Igor Sikorsky (nonfiction)|1972: Aircraft designer [[Igor Sikorsky (nonfiction)|Igor Sikorsky]] dies. He pioneered both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.

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  • 1764: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic William Hogarth dies. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".

    1764: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic William Hogarth dies. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".

  • 1848: Mathematician and crime-fighter Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi publishes landmark paper on the application of elliptic functions to the computation and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1848: Mathematician and crime-fighter Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi publishes landmark paper on the application of elliptic functions to the computation and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1849: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand Georg Frobenius born. He will make contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory.

    1849: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand Georg Frobenius born. He will make contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory.

  • 1922: Physicist and crime-fighter Heike Kamerlingh Onnes publishes breakthrough survey of applications of matter at low temperatures to the computation and detection of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1922: Physicist and crime-fighter Heike Kamerlingh Onnes publishes breakthrough survey of applications of matter at low temperatures to the computation and detection of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1923: Mathematician and electrical engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz dies. He fostered the development of alternating current, formulating mathematical theories which advanced the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States.

    1923: Mathematician and electrical engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz dies. He fostered the development of alternating current, formulating mathematical theories which advanced the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States.

  • 1923: Clock Head 2 remembers mathematician and electrical engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz as "a genius, and a true friend."

    1923: Clock Head 2 remembers mathematician and electrical engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz as "a genius, and a true friend."

  • 1945: Mathematician and naval engineer Aleksey Krylov dies. Fame came to him in the 1890s, when his pioneering theory of oscillating motions of the ship became internationally known.

    1945: Mathematician and naval engineer Aleksey Krylov dies. Fame came to him in the 1890s, when his pioneering theory of oscillating motions of the ship became internationally known.

  • 1969: Physicist and computer scientist Howard H. Aiken publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which compute and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1969: Physicist and computer scientist Howard H. Aiken publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which compute and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1972: Aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky dies. He pioneered both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.

    1972: Aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky dies. He pioneered both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.

  • 1972: Space pilot and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt remembers aircraft engineer Igor Sikorsky as "a genius, and a true friend."

    1972: Space pilot and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt remembers aircraft engineer Igor Sikorsky as "a genius, and a true friend."

  • 1983: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred Tarski dies. He was a prolific author, contributing to model theory, metamathematics, algebraic logic, abstract algebra, topology, geometry, measure theory, mathematical logic, set theory, and analytic philosophy.

    1983: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred Tarski dies. He was a prolific author, contributing to model theory, metamathematics, algebraic logic, abstract algebra, topology, geometry, measure theory, mathematical logic, set theory, and analytic philosophy.

  • 2017: Lend a Hand voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2017: Lend a Hand voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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