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||1888 – Archie Alexander, African-American mathematician and engineer (d. 1958) | ||1888 – Archie Alexander, African-American mathematician and engineer (d. 1958) | ||
||1893 – Ernst Kummer, German mathematician and academic (b. 1810) | ||1893 – Ernst Kummer, German mathematician and academic (b. 1810) Ernst Eduard Kummer (29 January 1810 – 14 May 1893) was a German mathematician. Skilled in applied mathematics, Kummer trained German army officers in ballistics | ||
||1897 – Ed Ricketts, American biologist and ecologist (d. 1948) | ||1897 – Ed Ricketts, American biologist and ecologist (d. 1948) | ||
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1678: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes Historia Culvertica, which will soon be widely plagiarized, influencing a generation of humanists.
1679: Astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow born. he will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.
1680: Vandal Savage uses solar eclipse to commit series of crimes against mathematical constants.
1863: Mathematician John Charles Fields born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.
1916: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy born. He will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.
1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.