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||1769: Georges Cuvier born ... biologist and academic.
||1769: Georges Cuvier born ... biologist and academic.
||1776: Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński born ... Messianist philosopher, mathematician, physicist, inventor, lawyer, and economist. He was born Hoene to a municipal architect in 1776 but changed his name in 1815. In 1803, Wroński joined the Marseille Observatory but was forced to leave the observatory after his theories were dismissed as grandiose rubbish. In mathematics, Wroński introduced a novel series expansion for a function in response to Joseph Louis Lagrange's use of infinite series. The coefficients in Wroński's new series form the Wronskian, a determinant Thomas Muir named in 1882. Pic.


||1781: Friedrich Tiedemann born ... anatomist and physiologist. Contra racism.
||1781: Friedrich Tiedemann born ... anatomist and physiologist. Contra racism.

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  • 1638: Descartes' proposal. René Descartes, in a letter to Marin Mersenne, proposed his folium (x-cubed + y-cubed = 2axy) as a test case to challenge Pierre de Fermat's differentiation techniques. To Descartes' embarrassment, Fermat's method worked.

    1638: Descartes' proposal. René Descartes, in a letter to Marin Mersenne, proposed his folium (x-cubed + y-cubed = 2axy) as a test case to challenge Pierre de Fermat's differentiation techniques. To Descartes' embarrassment, Fermat's method worked.

  • 1829: Mathematician and historian Moritz Cantor born. He will write Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik, which traces the history of mathematics up to 1799.

    1829: Mathematician and historian Moritz Cantor born. He will write Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik, which traces the history of mathematics up to 1799.

  • 1946: Signed first edition of Alice and Niles Dancing sells for ten thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1946: Signed first edition of Alice and Niles Dancing sells for ten thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1966: Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.

    1966: Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.

  • 1999: Sensors on the Mir spacecraft detect patterns of electricity which reveal existence of a vast electrical intelligence in the Earth's ionosphere, now known as AESOP.

    1999: Sensors on the Mir spacecraft detect patterns of electricity which reveal existence of a vast electrical intelligence in the Earth's ionosphere, now known as AESOP.

  • 1999: Biochemist and crystallographer John Kendrew dies. He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography.

    1999: Biochemist and crystallographer John Kendrew dies. He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography.

  • 2017: Reality TV show Dennis Paulson of Mars wins Pulitzer Prize for Most Innovative Programming.

    2017: Reality TV show Dennis Paulson of Mars wins Pulitzer Prize for Most Innovative Programming.

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