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||1838: Émile Léger dies ... mathematician ... only published four papers on mathematics, but one of them seems to be the first to recognize the worst case in the euclidean algorithm: when the inputs are proportional to consecutive Fibonacci numbers.. No pic, but interesting life: he helped defend Paris during the Hundred Days of Napoleon in March 1815, and was decorated for bravery. | ||1838: Émile Léger dies ... mathematician ... only published four papers on mathematics, but one of them seems to be the first to recognize the worst case in the euclidean algorithm: when the inputs are proportional to consecutive Fibonacci numbers.. No pic, but interesting life: he helped defend Paris during the Hundred Days of Napoleon in March 1815, and was decorated for bravery. | ||
||1852: Henri Becquerel | ||1852: Henri Becquerel born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1855: Jacques Charles François Sturm dies ... French mathematician and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Jacques+Charles+François+Sturm see also: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Francois-Sturm | ||1855: Jacques Charles François Sturm dies ... French mathematician and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Jacques+Charles+François+Sturm see also: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Francois-Sturm | ||
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1791: The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
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1802: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai born. He will be one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.
1832: Engineer Gustave Eiffel born. He will design the world-famous Eiffel Tower.
1836: A fire at the U.S. Patent Office destroys all 10,000 patents and several thousand related patent models.
1857: Engineer George Cayley dies. He did pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.
1887: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
1958: Theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli dies. Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle".
1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.
2000: The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.
2017: Signed first edition of Pilgrim stolen from the Walker Art Museum in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.
