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||1988 – Lev Pontryagin, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1908) | ||1988 – Lev Pontryagin, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1908) | ||
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||2007 – Wally Schirra, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1923) | ||2007 – Wally Schirra, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1923) | ||
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1779: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Winthrop dies. He was one of the foremost men of science in America during the 18th century.
1848: Inventor David Brewster demonstrates his "lenticular stereoscope" (the first portable, 3D viewing device), now widely used in modern scrying engines.
1860: Mathematician and physicist Vito Volterra born. He will be one of the founders of functional analysis, making contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations.
1890: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla uses radio waves to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1905: Mathematician and academic Werner Fenchel born. He will establish the basic results of convex analysis and nonlinear optimization theory which wwill, in time, serve as the foundation for nonlinear programming.
1910: Havelock and Nikola Tesla share Nobel Prize in Physics for research into electrical field modulation and data transmission.
1928: Mathematician Jacques-Louis Lions born. He will make contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control.