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File:Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1882: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] reprogrammed to detect and expose [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1882: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] reprogrammed to detect and expose [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Édouard Lucas.png|link=Édouard Lucas (nonfiction)|1891: [[Édouard Lucas (nonfiction)|Édouard Lucas]] dies. He studied the Fibonacci sequence; the related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers are named after him. Pic.
File:Édouard Lucas.png|link=Édouard Lucas (nonfiction)|1891: Mathematician [[Édouard Lucas (nonfiction)|Édouard Lucas]] dies. He studied the Fibonacci sequence; the related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers are named after him. Pic.


||1924: Harvey Kurtzman born ... cartoonist.
||1924: Harvey Kurtzman born ... cartoonist.

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  • 1881: Mathematician and religious leader Orson Pratt dies. As part of his system of Mormon theology, Pratt embraced the philosophical doctrine of hylozoism.

    1881: Mathematician and religious leader Orson Pratt dies. As part of his system of Mormon theology, Pratt embraced the philosophical doctrine of hylozoism.

  • 1882: Canterbury scrying engine reprogrammed to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.

    1882: Canterbury scrying engine reprogrammed to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1891: Mathematician Édouard Lucas dies. He studied the Fibonacci sequence; the related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers are named after him. Pic.

    1891: Mathematician Édouard Lucas dies. He studied the Fibonacci sequence; the related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers are named after him. Pic.

  • 1930: Mathematician Robin Farquharson born. He will write an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as Theory of Voting.

    1930: Mathematician Robin Farquharson born. He will write an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as Theory of Voting.

  • 2006: Mathematician and physicist John Crank dies. He worked on the numerical solution of partial differential equations; his work with Phyllis Nicolson on the heat equation resulted in the Crank–Nicolson method.

    2006: Mathematician and physicist John Crank dies. He worked on the numerical solution of partial differential equations; his work with Phyllis Nicolson on the heat equation resulted in the Crank–Nicolson method.

  • 2012: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy dies. He is generally credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium could be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.

    2012: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy dies. He is generally credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium could be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.

  • 2018: Green Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2018: Green Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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