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||1666: The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St Paul's Cathedral. | ||1666: The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St Paul's Cathedral. | ||
||1764: Nathaniel Bliss dies ... astronomer and mathematician | ||1764: Nathaniel Bliss dies ... astronomer and mathematician. Pic. | ||
File:Antoine Deparcieux.jpg|link=Antoine Deparcieux (nonfiction)|1768: French mathematician and engineer [[Antoine Deparcieux (nonfiction)|Antoine Deparcieux]] dies. He made a living manufacturing sundials. | File:Antoine Deparcieux.jpg|link=Antoine Deparcieux (nonfiction)|1768: French mathematician and engineer [[Antoine Deparcieux (nonfiction)|Antoine Deparcieux]] dies. He made a living manufacturing sundials. | ||
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||1841: Paul Matthieu Hermann Laurent born ... mathematician. He developed statistical formulas for the calculation of actuarial tables and studied heat conduction. Pic. | ||1841: Paul Matthieu Hermann Laurent born ... mathematician. He developed statistical formulas for the calculation of actuarial tables and studied heat conduction. Pic. | ||
||1850: Woldemar Voigt born ... physicist, mathematician, and academic. | ||1850: Woldemar Voigt born ... physicist, mathematician, and academic. Pic. | ||
||1850: Alfred Pringsheim born ... mathematician and patron of the arts. He will study real and complex functions, following the power-series-approach of the Weierstrass school. Pringsheim published numerous works on the subject of complex analysis, with a focus on the summability theory of infinite series and the boundary behavior of analytic functions. Pic. | ||1850: Alfred Pringsheim born ... mathematician and patron of the arts. He will study real and complex functions, following the power-series-approach of the Weierstrass school. Pringsheim published numerous works on the subject of complex analysis, with a focus on the summability theory of infinite series and the boundary behavior of analytic functions. Pic. | ||
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||2006: Gisbert F. R. Hasenjaeger dies ... mathematical logician. Independently and simultaneously with Leon Henkin in 1949, he developed a new proof of the completeness theorem of Kurt Gödel for predicate logic. He worked as an assistant to Heinrich Scholz at Section IVa of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Chiffrierabteilung, and was responsible for the security of the Enigma machine. Pic. | ||2006: Gisbert F. R. Hasenjaeger dies ... mathematical logician. Independently and simultaneously with Leon Henkin in 1949, he developed a new proof of the completeness theorem of Kurt Gödel for predicate logic. He worked as an assistant to Heinrich Scholz at Section IVa of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Chiffrierabteilung, and was responsible for the security of the Enigma machine. Pic. | ||
||2011: Herbert Mataré dies ... physicist and academic ... the focus of his research was the field of semiconductor research. His best-known work is the first functional "European" transistor, which he developed and patented together with Heinrich Welker in the vicinity of Paris in 1948, at the same time and independently from the Bell Labs engineers. Pic. | |||
File:Quaternion multiplication.jpg|link=Quaternion (nonfiction)|2017: [[Quaternion (nonfiction)|Quaternion multiplication table]] sells for two million dollars. | File:Quaternion multiplication.jpg|link=Quaternion (nonfiction)|2017: [[Quaternion (nonfiction)|Quaternion multiplication table]] sells for two million dollars. | ||
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1768: French mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux dies. He made a living manufacturing sundials.
1808: Carl Friedrich Gauss writes Wolfgang Bolyai: "It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."
1865: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician William Rowan Hamilton dies. He made important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the quaternion.
1947: Mathematician and crimefighter Haskell Curry publishes new theory of combinatory logic which uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1948: Archaeologist and spy Sylvanus Morley dies. He conducted espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities only came to light well after his death.
1999: Signed first edition of The Eel Escapes Hydrolab sells for one and a half million dollars.
2017: Quaternion multiplication table sells for two million dollars.
