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File:Niels Steensen.png|link=Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|1654: Mathematician [[Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|Niels Steensen]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Niels Steensen.png|link=Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|1654: Mathematician [[Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|Niels Steensen]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||James David Forbes FRS FRSE FGS (20 April 1809 – 31 December 1868)[1] was a Scottish physicist and glaciologist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat and seismology. He invented the seismometer.
||James David Forbes FRS FRSE FGS (20 April 1809 – 31 December 1868) was a Scottish physicist and glaciologist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat and seismology. He invented the seismometer.


File:Giuseppe Peano.jpg|link=Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|1932: Mathematician [[Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Peano]] dies. He did pioneering work in mathematical logic and [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]].
File:Giuseppe Peano.jpg|link=Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|1932: Mathematician [[Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Peano]] dies. He did pioneering work in mathematical logic and [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]].

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