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File:Tullio Levi-civita.jpg|link=Tullio Levi-Civita (nonfiction)|1918: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Tullio Levi-Civita (nonfiction)|Tullio Levi-Civita]] uses absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) to detect and prevent [[Crimes against physical constants|the theory of relativity]]. | File:Tullio Levi-civita.jpg|link=Tullio Levi-Civita (nonfiction)|1918: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Tullio Levi-Civita (nonfiction)|Tullio Levi-Civita]] uses absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) to detect and prevent [[Crimes against physical constants|the theory of relativity]]. | ||
||1919 | ||1919: Johannes Rydberg dies ... physicist and academic. | ||
||Karl Longin Zeller | ||1924: Karl Longin Zeller born ... mathematician and computer scientist who worked in numerical analysis and approximation theory. He is the namesake of Zeller operators. | ||
Zeller was drafted into the German army, and lost his right arm on the Soviet front of World War II. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Tübingen in 1950, under the supervision of Konrad Knopp and Erich Kamke, and remained at Tübingen for most of his career as a professor and as director of the computer center. He left Tübingen in 1959 for a professorship in Stuttgart but returned to Tübingen in 1960 with a personal chair in "the mathematics of supercomputer facilities", making him one of the founders of computer science in Germany. | Zeller was drafted into the German army, and lost his right arm on the Soviet front of World War II. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Tübingen in 1950, under the supervision of Konrad Knopp and Erich Kamke, and remained at Tübingen for most of his career as a professor and as director of the computer center. He left Tübingen in 1959 for a professorship in Stuttgart but returned to Tübingen in 1960 with a personal chair in "the mathematics of supercomputer facilities", making him one of the founders of computer science in Germany. | ||
File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1933: [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]] break their tethers, eat over two hundred head of cattle. | File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1933: [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]] break their tethers, eat over two hundred head of cattle. | ||
||1967 | ||1967: Katharine McCormick dies ... biologist and philanthropist. | ||
||Josef Lense | ||1985: Josef Lense dies ... physicist. Lense, together with Hans Thirring, is known as one of the two discoverers of the Lense-Thirring effect. | ||
||1989 | ||1989: Hermann Oberth dies ... physicist and engineer. | ||
| | ||2001: Samuel Abraham Goldblith dies ... lieutenant, biologist, and engineer. | ||
|| | ||2011: James Earl Baumgartner dies ... mathematician who worked in set theory, mathematical logic and foundations, and topology. Pic. | ||
|| | ||2012: Mark Crispin dies ... computer scientist and academic, designed the IMAP. | ||
|| | ||2013: Halton Arp dies ... astronomer and critic. | ||
|| | ||2016: Anne Penfold Street born dies ... mathematician specializing in combinatorics ... author of several textbooks; her work on sum-free sets became a standard reference for its subject matter. Pic. | ||
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1612: Galileo became the first person to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.
1663: Mathematician and physicist Francesco Maria Grimaldi dies. Working with Riccioli, he investigated the free fall of objects, confirming that the distance of fall was proportional to the square of the time taken.
1881: Mathematician and crime-fighter Leopold Kronecker publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1882: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Arthur Eddington born. He will become famous for his work concerning the theory of relativity.
1895: Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.
1902: Physicist and crime-fighter John Ambrose Fleming uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to counteract effects of geometry solvent.
1903: Mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist John von Neumann born. He will be a key figure in the development of the digital computer, and develop mathematical models of both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.
1918: Mathematician and crime-fighter Tullio Levi-Civita uses absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) to detect and prevent the theory of relativity.
1933: Carnivorous dirigibles break their tethers, eat over two hundred head of cattle.