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||1985: Hua Luogeng dies ... mathematician famous for his important contributions to number theory and for his role as the leader of mathematics research and education in the People's Republic of China. | ||1985: Hua Luogeng dies ... mathematician famous for his important contributions to number theory and for his role as the leader of mathematics research and education in the People's Republic of China. | ||
||2006: José Leite Lopes dies ... theoretical physicist who worked in the field of quantum field theory and particle physics. Political refugee from Brazil. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=José+Leite+Lopes | |||
||2010: Richard Darwin Keynes dies ... physiologist who did pioneering work on the mechanisms underlying the conduction of the action potential along nerve fibres. Early in his career, he worked with the giant nerve fibers of squid, which would help discover how nerve impulses are transmitted in all animals. In later resarch, he determined how electric eels project electric fields outside their bodies. Keynes was the first to use radioactive sodium and potassium tracer atoms to follow the movements of these atoms when an impulse is transmitted along a nerve fibre. He has written extensively about the life and work of his great-grandfather, Charles Darwin, beginning with The Beagle Record (1979). Pic not Wikipedia. | ||2010: Richard Darwin Keynes dies ... physiologist who did pioneering work on the mechanisms underlying the conduction of the action potential along nerve fibres. Early in his career, he worked with the giant nerve fibers of squid, which would help discover how nerve impulses are transmitted in all animals. In later resarch, he determined how electric eels project electric fields outside their bodies. Keynes was the first to use radioactive sodium and potassium tracer atoms to follow the movements of these atoms when an impulse is transmitted along a nerve fibre. He has written extensively about the life and work of his great-grandfather, Charles Darwin, beginning with The Beagle Record (1979). Pic not Wikipedia. | ||
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||2014: Richard Lewis Arnowitt dies ... physicist known for his contributions to theoretical particle physics and to general relativity. Pic. | ||2014: Richard Lewis Arnowitt dies ... physicist known for his contributions to theoretical particle physics and to general relativity. Pic. | ||
||2015: Pierre Dolbeault dies ... mathematician. | ||2015: Pierre Dolbeault dies ... mathematician. His is known for Dolbeault cohomology and the Dolbeault theorem. Pic. | ||
File:Green Tangle 2.jpg|link=Green Tangle 2 (nonfiction)|2019: Signed first edition of ''[[Green Tangle 2 (nonfiction)|Green Tangle 2]]'' purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a prominent [[mathematician]] living in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]." | File:Green Tangle 2.jpg|link=Green Tangle 2 (nonfiction)|2019: Signed first edition of ''[[Green Tangle 2 (nonfiction)|Green Tangle 2]]'' purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a prominent [[mathematician]] living in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]." | ||
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1577: Astronomer and mathematician Paul Guldin born. He will discover the Guldinus theorem, which determines the surface and the volume of a solid of revolution.
1936: Data from Canterbury scrying engine used to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1937: Mathematician and academic Vladimir Arnold born. He will help develop the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable systems.
1938: Alice Beta Paragliding published. Many experts believe that the illustration depicts Beta infiltrating the ENIAC program, although this is widely debated.
1945: Physicist James Franck brings the Franck Report to Washington. The report recommends that the United States not use the atomic bomb as a weapon to prompt the surrender of Japan in World War II.
1981: Arnold's cat map is "better than a laser pointer for keeping a cat amused," says mathematician and cat psychologist Vladimir Arnold.
2019: Signed first edition of Green Tangle 2 purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a prominent mathematician living in New Minneapolis, Canada."