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||1871: Boris Galerkin born ... mathematician and engineer. He contributed to the finite element method, which is a way to numerically solve partial differential equations. The Galerkin method approximates the solution to a problem in weak form. Pic. | ||1871: Boris Galerkin born ... mathematician and engineer. He contributed to the finite element method, which is a way to numerically solve partial differential equations. The Galerkin method approximates the solution to a problem in weak form. Pic. | ||
||1876: Theodore Hardeen born ... magician. | ||1876: Theodore Hardeen born ... magician, escape artist. Pic. | ||
||1877: Garrett Morgan born ... inventor. | ||1877: Garrett Morgan born ... inventor. Pic. | ||
File:Tolman and Einstein.jpg|link=Richard C. Tolman (nonfiction)|1881: Physicist and chemist [[Richard C. Tolman (nonfiction)|Richard C. Tolman]] born. He will make important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity. | File:Tolman and Einstein.jpg|link=Richard C. Tolman (nonfiction)|1881: Physicist and chemist [[Richard C. Tolman (nonfiction)|Richard C. Tolman]] born. He will make important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity. | ||
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1702: Thief Jack Sheppard born. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.
1821: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Pierre-Simon Laplace publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1881: Physicist and chemist Richard C. Tolman born. He will make important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity.
- Malcolm Dole (TO DO)
1903: Chemist and academic Malcolm Dole. He will discover the Dole effect, an inequality in the ratio of the heavy isotope 18O (a "standard" oxygen atom with two additional neutrons) to the lighter 16O, measured in the atmosphere and seawater.
1931: US Navy says Carnivorous dirigibles cannot be tamed, should be put down.
2007: Mathematician Hing Tong dies. He made contributions to algebraic topology, including a proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem.
2007: Math photographer Cantor Parabola publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which uses time crystals to reveal centuries-old events.
2008: Game designer Gary Gygax dies. He co-created the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson.
2016: Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting." Parabola's work will influence a generation of mathematicians.