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||1987 – In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May. | ||1987 – In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May. | ||
||1988: Alexander Aigner dies. He was a full university professor for mathematics at the Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria. During World War II he was part of a group of five mathematicians, which was recruited by the military cryptanalyst Wilhelm Fenner, and which included Ernst Witt, Georg Aumann, Oswald Teichmueller and Johann Friedrich Schultze, to form the backbone of the new mathematical research department in the late 1930s, which would eventually be called Section IVc of Cipher Department of the High Command of the Wehrmacht. (abbr. OKW/Chi). | |||
||Léon Charles Prudent Van Hove (d. 2 September 1990) was a Belgian physicist and a former Director General of CERN. He developed a scientific career spanning mathematics, solid state physics, elementary particle and nuclear physics to cosmology. Pic. | ||Léon Charles Prudent Van Hove (d. 2 September 1990) was a Belgian physicist and a former Director General of CERN. He developed a scientific career spanning mathematics, solid state physics, elementary particle and nuclear physics to cosmology. Pic. | ||
||Barbara McClintock (d. September 2, 1992) was an American scientist and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. She discovered transposition and used it to demonstrate that genes are responsible for turning physical characteristics on and off. Pic. | |||
File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|1999: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel Escapes Hydrolab]]'' sells for one and a half million dollars. | File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|1999: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel Escapes Hydrolab]]'' sells for one and a half million dollars. | ||
File:Quaternion multiplication.jpg|link=Quaternion (nonfiction)|2017: [[Quaternion (nonfiction)|Quaternion multiplication table]] sells for two million dollars. | File:Quaternion multiplication.jpg|link=Quaternion (nonfiction)|2017: [[Quaternion (nonfiction)|Quaternion multiplication table]] sells for two million dollars. | ||
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1768: French mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux dies. He made a living manufacturing sundials.
1865: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician William Rowan Hamilton dies. He made important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the quaternion.
1947: Mathematician and crimefighter Haskell Curry publishes new theory of combinatory logic which uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1948: Archaeologist and spy Sylvanus Morley dies. He conducted espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities only came to light well after his death.
1999: Signed first edition of The Eel Escapes Hydrolab sells for one and a half million dollars.
2017: Quaternion multiplication table sells for two million dollars.
