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||1765 – Paolo Ruffini, Italian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1822) | ||1765 – Paolo Ruffini, Italian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1822) | ||
||1791 – Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist (d. 1867) | ||1791 – Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist (d. 1867) Michael Faraday FRS (/ˈfæ.rəˌdeɪ/; 22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis. | ||
||1927 – Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney. | ||1927 – Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney. | ||
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1547: Philologist, mathematician, astronomer, and poet Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin born. His prolific and versatile genius will produce a great variety of works, but his reckless life and libelous letters will lead to imprisonment.
1624: Math photographer Cantor Parabola captures unprecedented images of Renaissance-era crimes against mathematical constants.
1974: Physicist Winfried Otto Schumann dies. He predicted the existence of Schumann resonances, a series of low-frequency resonances caused by lightning discharges in the atmosphere.
1976: Mathematician and crime-fighter Shoshichi Kobayashi uses transformation groups of geometric structures to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2012: Mathematician, author, activist, and academic Irving Adler dies. He was a plaintiff in the McCarthy-era case Adler vs. Board of Education.
2013: Signed first edition of Skip Digits, Conductor stolen; US Treasury investigators say money trail leads to Baron Zersetzung.