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File:Johannes Trithemius.jpg|link=Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|1462 Feb. 1: Polymath [[Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|Johannes Trithemius]] born. He will be remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist. | File:Johannes Trithemius.jpg|link=Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|1462 Feb. 1: Polymath [[Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|Johannes Trithemius]] born. He will be remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist. | ||
File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1600 Feb. 17: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] is burned at the stake. | |||
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File:Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel.jpg|link=|1891 Feb. 17: Mathematician [[Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|Abraham Fraenkel]] born. He will contribute to axiomatic set theory, and publish a biography of [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|George Cantor]]. | |||
File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|link=Havelock|1891 Oct. 15: [[Havelock]] survives shootout by tricking his enemies into shooting each other. | File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|link=Havelock|1891 Oct. 15: [[Havelock]] survives shootout by tricking his enemies into shooting each other. | ||
File:Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus.jpg|link=Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (nonfiction)|1674 Feb. 1: [[Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (nonfiction)|Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to detect and counteract [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus.jpg|link=Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (nonfiction)|1674 Feb. 1: [[Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (nonfiction)|Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to detect and counteract [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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File:George Gabriel Stokes.jpg|link=Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|1903 Feb. 1: Physicist and mathematician [[Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet]] dies. He made seminal contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics. | File:George Gabriel Stokes.jpg|link=Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|1903 Feb. 1: Physicist and mathematician [[Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet]] dies. He made seminal contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics. | ||
File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1944 Feb. 1: Pultizer Prize awarded to ''[[Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|Field Report Number One]]'' (Peenemunde edition). | File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1944 Feb. 1: Pultizer Prize awarded to ''[[Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|Field Report Number One]]'' (Peenemunde edition). | ||
File:The Hal Jordan Playbook.jpg|link=The Hal Jordan Playbook|1964 Feb. 17: Publication of ''[[The Hal Jordan Playbook]]'' increases risk of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
File:Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel.jpg|link=|1965 Oct. 15: Mathematician [[Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|Abraham Fraenkel]] dies. He contributed to axiomatic set theory, and published a biography of [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|George Cantor]]. | File:Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel.jpg|link=|1965 Oct. 15: Mathematician [[Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|Abraham Fraenkel]] dies. He contributed to axiomatic set theory, and published a biography of [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|George Cantor]]. | ||
File:Werner Heisenberg.jpg|link=Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|1976 Feb. 1: Physicist and academic [[Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|Werner Heisenberg]] dies. He introduced the [[Uncertainty principle (nonfiction)|uncertainty principle]] -- in quantum mechanics, any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle can be known. | File:Werner Heisenberg.jpg|link=Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|1976 Feb. 1: Physicist and academic [[Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|Werner Heisenberg]] dies. He introduced the [[Uncertainty principle (nonfiction)|uncertainty principle]] -- in quantum mechanics, any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle can be known. | ||
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File:George Plimpton 1993.jpg|link=George Plimpton (nonfiction)|2003 Feb. 17: [[George Plimpton (nonfiction)|George Plimpton]] publishes first in prize-winning series of articles on [[high-energy literature]]. | |||
File:Nicolaas de Bruijn.jpg|link=Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (nonfiction)|2012 Feb. 17: Mathematician and theorist [[Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (nonfiction)|Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn]] dies. He made contributions in the fields of analysis, number theory, combinatorics, and logic. | |||
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Revision as of 21:22, 3 February 2017
1462 Feb. 1: Polymath Johannes Trithemius born. He will be remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.
1600 Feb. 17: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake.
1891 Feb. 17: Mathematician Abraham Fraenkel born. He will contribute to axiomatic set theory, and publish a biography of George Cantor.
1891 Oct. 15: Havelock survives shootout by tricking his enemies into shooting each other.
1674 Feb. 1: Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus uses Gnomon algorithm to detect and counteract crimes against mathematical constants.
1842 Feb. 1: Poet and wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use as scrying engine.
1903 Feb. 1: Physicist and mathematician Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet dies. He made seminal contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics.
1944 Feb. 1: Pultizer Prize awarded to Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition).
1964 Feb. 17: Publication of The Hal Jordan Playbook increases risk of crimes against mathematical constants.
1965 Oct. 15: Mathematician Abraham Fraenkel dies. He contributed to axiomatic set theory, and published a biography of George Cantor.
1976 Feb. 1: Physicist and academic Werner Heisenberg dies. He introduced the uncertainty principle -- in quantum mechanics, any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle can be known.
2003 Feb. 17: George Plimpton publishes first in prize-winning series of articles on high-energy literature.
2012 Feb. 17: Mathematician and theorist Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn dies. He made contributions in the fields of analysis, number theory, combinatorics, and logic.
