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||1646: Elena Cornaro Piscopia born ... mathematician and philosopher. | ||1646: Elena Cornaro Piscopia born ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic. | ||
||1667: Grégoire de Saint-Vincent dies ... Jesuit and mathematician. He is remembered for his work on quadrature of the hyperbola. Grégoire gave the "clearest early account of the summation of geometric series." | ||1667: Grégoire de Saint-Vincent dies ... Jesuit and mathematician. He is remembered for his work on quadrature of the hyperbola. Grégoire gave the "clearest early account of the summation of geometric series." He also resolved Zeno's paradox by showing that the time intervals involved formed a geometric progression and thus had a finite sum. Pic. Challenge AMA says born Sept. 9. | ||
||1716: Roger Cotes dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic (bust). | ||1716: Roger Cotes dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic (bust). | ||
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1756: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal born.
1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military Gnomon algorithm functions.
1865: Council of algorithms announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.
1900: Physicist and engineer Dennis Gabor born. He will invent holography, for which he will receive the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.
1910: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, dies.
2004: John Brunner publishes history of crimes against mathematical constants.
2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury dies. The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
2016: Signed first edition of Mad King stolen from the Tate in London by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.
2019: Signed first edition of Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1) purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a well-known Gnomon algorithm theorist living in New Minneapolis, Canada."