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||1909: Saunders Mac Lane born ... mathematician who co-founded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg. | ||1909: Saunders Mac Lane born ... mathematician who co-founded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg. | ||
||1912: Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov born ... mathematician, physicist, and mountaineer. | ||1912: Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov born ... mathematician, physicist, and mountaineer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=aleksandr+danilovich+aleksandrov | ||
||1920: Mathematician and academic Karl Rohn dies. He studied algebraic space curves and completed the classification work of Georges Halphen and Max Noether. Pic. | ||1920: Mathematician and academic Karl Rohn dies. He studied algebraic space curves and completed the classification work of Georges Halphen and Max Noether. Pic. | ||
||1920: John Perry dies ... pioneering engineer and mathematician from Ireland. | ||1920: John Perry dies ... pioneering engineer and mathematician from Ireland. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Perry+engineer | ||
||1921: Konstantin Sergeevich Mereschkowski dies ... biologist and botanist, active mainly around Kazan, whose research on lichens led him to propose the theory of symbiogenesis. | ||1921: Konstantin Sergeevich Mereschkowski dies ... biologist and botanist, active mainly around Kazan, whose research on lichens led him to propose the theory of symbiogenesis. | ||
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1805: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician William Rowan Hamilton born. He will make important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the quaternion.
1833: Physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère uses principles of electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics", to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1834: Mathematician and philosopher John Venn born. He will invent the Venn diagram, now widely used set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science.
2016: The Shovel depicts The Custodian in the act of reversing contract violations by Egon Rhodomunde and Baron Zersetzung.
2018: Chromatographic analysis of Fire Dance reveals "at least five hundred" previously unknown shades of red.