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||1909: Bailie Hugh Blackburn dies ... mathematician. A lifelong friend of William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin), and the husband of illustrator Jemima Blackburn, he was professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow from 1849 to 1879. Pic. | ||1909: Bailie Hugh Blackburn dies ... mathematician. A lifelong friend of William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin), and the husband of illustrator Jemima Blackburn, he was professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow from 1849 to 1879. Pic. | ||
File:E. Howard Hunt.jpg|link=E. Howard Hunt (nonfiction)|1918: CIA officer and author [[E. Howard Hunt (nonfiction)|E. Howard Hunt]] born. Along with G. Gordon Liddy, Hunt will plot the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate burglaries and other undercover operations for the Nixon administration]]. | File:E. Howard Hunt.jpg|link=E. Howard Hunt (nonfiction)|1918: CIA officer and author [[E. Howard Hunt (nonfiction)|E. Howard Hunt]] born. Along with G. Gordon Liddy, Hunt will plot the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate burglaries and other undercover operations for the Nixon administration]]. | ||
||1930: Enrico Forlanini dies ... engineer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer, known for his works on helicopters, aircraft, hydrofoils and dirigibles. | ||1930: Enrico Forlanini dies ... engineer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer, known for his works on helicopters, aircraft, hydrofoils and dirigibles. | ||
||1930: Ian Robertson Porteous born ... mathematician at the University of Liverpool and an educator on Merseyside. He is best known for three books on geometry and modern algebra. Pic: http://hodge.maths.ed.ac.uk/tiki/Ian+Porteous | |||
||1933: Peter Mansfield born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1933: Peter Mansfield born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
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File:Similar Golden Rectangles.png|link=Golden ratio (nonfiction)|2017: Artificial intelligence based on the [[Golden ratio (nonfiction)|Golden ratio]] develops genuine gratitude for [[Michael Maestlin (nonfiction)|Michael Maestlin]]'s approximation of the [[Golden ratio (nonfiction)|Golden ratio]]. | File:Similar Golden Rectangles.png|link=Golden ratio (nonfiction)|2017: Artificial intelligence based on the [[Golden ratio (nonfiction)|Golden ratio]] develops genuine gratitude for [[Michael Maestlin (nonfiction)|Michael Maestlin]]'s approximation of the [[Golden ratio (nonfiction)|Golden ratio]]. | ||
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1581: Mathematician and linguist Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac born. He will do work in number theory and find a method of constructing magic squares.
1582: Astronomer and mathematician Michael Maestlin uses Copernican system of the solar system to predict imminent outbreak of crimes against mathematical constants.
1859: Alfred Dreyfus born. He will be wrongly convicted of treason during the Dreyfus affair.
1903: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.
1918: CIA officer and author E. Howard Hunt born. Along with G. Gordon Liddy, Hunt will plot the Watergate burglaries and other undercover operations for the Nixon administration.
1948: Mathematician Joseph Wedderburn dies. He made significant contributions to algebra, proving that a finite division algebra is a field, and proving part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras.
2017: Artificial intelligence based on the Golden ratio develops genuine gratitude for Michael Maestlin's approximation of the Golden ratio.
