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File:Johannes Kies.jpg|link=Johann Kies (nonfiction)|1713: Astronomer and mathematician [[Johann Kies (nonfiction)|Johann Kies]] born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman. | File:Johannes Kies.jpg|link=Johann Kies (nonfiction)|1713: Astronomer and mathematician [[Johann Kies (nonfiction)|Johann Kies]] born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman. | ||
||Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (b. 14 September 1769) was a Prussian polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. | |||
||1837 – Nikolai Bugaev, Georgian-Russian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1903) | ||1837 – Nikolai Bugaev, Georgian-Russian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1903) |
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1713: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman.
1894: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
2015: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.