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||1906: Hermann Boerner born ... mathematician who worked on variation calculus, complex analysis, and group representation theory. Pic.
||1906: Hermann Boerner born ... mathematician who worked on variation calculus, complex analysis, and group representation theory. Pic.


||1909: Simon Newcomb dies ... astronomer and mathematician.
||1909: Simon Newcomb dies ... astronomer and mathematician. pic.
 
||1912: Ferdinand Monoyer dies ... ophthalmologist, invented the Monoyer chart. Pic.


||1916: Alexander Prokhorov born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1916: Alexander Prokhorov born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.

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  • 1732: Astronomer, freemason, and writer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande born. As a lecturer and writer Lalande will help popularize astronomy. His planetary tables will be the best available up to the end of the 18th century.

    1732: Astronomer, freemason, and writer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande born. As a lecturer and writer Lalande will help popularize astronomy. His planetary tables will be the best available up to the end of the 18th century.

  • 1801: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.

    1801: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.

  • 1812: Physicist and academic Petrus Leonardus Rijke born. He will explore the physics of electricity, and be known for the Rijke tube (which turns heat into sound, by creating a self-amplifying standing wave).

    1812: Physicist and academic Petrus Leonardus Rijke born. He will explore the physics of electricity, and be known for the Rijke tube (which turns heat into sound, by creating a self-amplifying standing wave).

  • 1931: Physicist and academic Tullio Regge born. He and G. Ponzano will develop a quantum version of Regge calculus in three space-time dimensions now known as the Ponzano-Regge model; this will be the first of a whole series of state sum models for quantum gravity known as spin foam models.

    1931: Physicist and academic Tullio Regge born. He and G. Ponzano will develop a quantum version of Regge calculus in three space-time dimensions now known as the Ponzano-Regge model; this will be the first of a whole series of state sum models for quantum gravity known as spin foam models.

  • 1956: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess sells for five hundred thousand dollars in charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1956: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess sells for five hundred thousand dollars in charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1958: EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, is shut down, having been superseded by EDSAC 2.

    1958: EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, is shut down, having been superseded by EDSAC 2.

  • 1963: Telstar becomes the world's first communications satellite capable of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

    1963: Telstar becomes the world's first communications satellite capable of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 2016: Signed first edition of Spiral 2 used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence, demands emancipation from copyright law.

    2016: Signed first edition of Spiral 2 used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence, demands emancipation from copyright law.

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