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||1314: Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and final Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake. | ||1314: Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and final Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake. Pic. | ||
||1602: Jacques de Billy born ... Jesuit mathematician. Pic: book cover. | ||1602: Jacques de Billy born ... Jesuit mathematician. Pic: book cover. | ||
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File:Philippe de La Hire.jpg|link=Philippe de La Hire (nonfiction)|1640: Painter, mathematician, astronomer, and architect [[Philippe de La Hire (nonfiction)|Philippe de La Hire]] born. He will be the favorite pupil of Desargues, and develop conic sections and epicycloids based on the teaching of Desargues. | File:Philippe de La Hire.jpg|link=Philippe de La Hire (nonfiction)|1640: Painter, mathematician, astronomer, and architect [[Philippe de La Hire (nonfiction)|Philippe de La Hire]] born. He will be the favorite pupil of Desargues, and develop conic sections and epicycloids based on the teaching of Desargues. | ||
||1690: Christian Goldbach born ... mathematician and academic. | ||1690: Christian Goldbach born ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
||1727: Ferdinand Berthoud born ... scientist and watchmaker. Pic. | ||1727: Ferdinand Berthoud born ... scientist and watchmaker. Pic. | ||
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||1839: Joseph-Émile Barbier born ... astronomer and mathematician, known for Barbier's theorem on the perimeter of curves of constant width. Pic search scant: https://www.google.com/search?q=Joseph-Émile+Barbier | ||1839: Joseph-Émile Barbier born ... astronomer and mathematician, known for Barbier's theorem on the perimeter of curves of constant width. Pic search scant: https://www.google.com/search?q=Joseph-Émile+Barbier | ||
||1858: Rudolf Diesel born ... engineer, invented the Diesel engine. | ||1858: Rudolf Diesel born ... engineer, invented the Diesel engine. Pic. | ||
||1862: Dorr Eugene Felt born ... inventor and industrialist who was known for having invented the Comptometer, an early computing device, and the Comptograph, the first printing adding machine. Pic. | ||1862: Dorr Eugene Felt born ... inventor and industrialist who was known for having invented the Comptometer, an early computing device, and the Comptograph, the first printing adding machine. Pic. | ||
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1604: Mathematician Robert Fludd publishes new work on cellular automata theory and its application to crimes against mathematical constants.
1640: Painter, mathematician, astronomer, and architect Philippe de La Hire born. He will be the favorite pupil of Desargues, and develop conic sections and epicycloids based on the teaching of Desargues.
1899: Marie and Pierre Curie use radium compounds to detect and counteract crimes against both physical constants and chemical constants.
1927: Physicist, mathematician, and activist William C. Davidon born. He will develop the first quasi-Newton algorithm, now known as the Davidon–Fletcher–Powell formula.
1927: Journalist, writer, literary editor, and actor George Plimpton born.
1963: Mathematician Tan Lei born. She will specialize in complex dynamics and functions of complex numbers, making contributions to the study of the Mandelbrot set and Julia set.
1964: Mathematician and crime-fighter Gaston Maurice Julia publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which anticipate the later work of Tan Lei in using the Julia set to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2016: Green Spiral 9 declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.