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||1410 – The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock. | |||
File:Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac.jpg|link=Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (nonfiction)|1581: Mathematician and linguist [[Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (nonfiction)|Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac]] born. He will do work in number theory and find a method of constructing magic squares. | File:Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac.jpg|link=Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (nonfiction)|1581: Mathematician and linguist [[Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (nonfiction)|Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac]] born. He will do work in number theory and find a method of constructing magic squares. | ||
File:Michael Maestlin.jpg|link=Michael Maestlin (nonfiction)|1582: Astronomer and mathematician [[Michael Maestlin (nonfiction)|Michael Maestlin]] uses Copernican system of the solar system to predict imminent outbreak of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Michael Maestlin.jpg|link=Michael Maestlin (nonfiction)|1582: Astronomer and mathematician [[Michael Maestlin (nonfiction)|Michael Maestlin]] uses Copernican system of the solar system to predict imminent outbreak of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1604 – Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way. | |||
||1704 – Johann Andreas Segner, German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777) | |||
File:Alfred Dreyfus age 76.jpg|1859: [[Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|Alfred Dreyfus]] born. He will be wrongly convicted of treason during the [[Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|Dreyfus affair]]. | |||
|File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] publishes new [[Set theory (nonfiction)|theory of sets]] derived from [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]." | |File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] publishes new [[Set theory (nonfiction)|theory of sets]] derived from [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]." | ||
||1936 – Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles. | |||
||2009 – First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program. | |||
File:Similar Golden Rectangles.png|link=Golden ratio (nonfiction)|2017: Artificial intelligence based on the [[Golden ratio (nonfiction)|Golden ratio]] develops genuine gratitude for [[Michael Maestlin (nonfiction)|Michael Maestlin]]'s approximation of the [[Golden ratio (nonfiction)|Golden ratio]]. | File:Similar Golden Rectangles.png|link=Golden ratio (nonfiction)|2017: Artificial intelligence based on the [[Golden ratio (nonfiction)|Golden ratio]] develops genuine gratitude for [[Michael Maestlin (nonfiction)|Michael Maestlin]]'s approximation of the [[Golden ratio (nonfiction)|Golden ratio]]. | ||
Revision as of 17:16, 14 July 2017
1581: Mathematician and linguist Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac born. He will do work in number theory and find a method of constructing magic squares.
1582: Astronomer and mathematician Michael Maestlin uses Copernican system of the solar system to predict imminent outbreak of crimes against mathematical constants.
1859: Alfred Dreyfus born. He will be wrongly convicted of treason during the Dreyfus affair.
2017: Artificial intelligence based on the Golden ratio develops genuine gratitude for Michael Maestlin's approximation of the Golden ratio.
