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||1561: Edward Wright baptized... mathematician and cartographer noted for his book Certaine Errors in Navigation (1599; 2nd ed., 1610), which for the first time explained the mathematical basis of the Mercator projection, and set out a reference table giving the linear scale multiplication factor as a function of latitude, calculated for each minute of arc up to a latitude of 75°. This was in fact a table of values of the integral of the secant function, and was the essential step needed to make practical both the making and the navigational use of Mercator charts. No death date. Pic: book cover. | |||
||1604: The supernova now called "Kepler's nova" was first sighted in the constellation Ophiuchus, the Serpent Bearer. Johannes Kepler observed it from the time of its appearance as an apparently new star. It encouraged him to write The New Star in 1606. | |||
||1621: Antoine de Montchrestien, French soldier, playwright, and economist. | ||1621: Antoine de Montchrestien, French soldier, playwright, and economist. | ||
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||1715: Michel Benoist born ... scientist and missionary. | ||1715: Michel Benoist born ... scientist and missionary. | ||
|| | ||1834: Jakob Steiner appointed extraordinary professor at the University of Berlin, a post he held until his death in 1863. | ||
||1850: Henry Louis Le Châtelier born ... chemist and academic. | ||1850: Henry Louis Le Châtelier born ... chemist and academic. | ||
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File:Neptune Slaughter Believe It Or Whaat.jpg|link=Neptune Slaughter|1946: Sea-creature and alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] denies sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier ''Hiryu''. | File:Neptune Slaughter Believe It Or Whaat.jpg|link=Neptune Slaughter|1946: Sea-creature and alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] denies sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier ''Hiryu''. | ||
||1949: Leonor Michaelis dies ... biochemist, physical chemist, and physician, known primarily for his work with Maud Menten on enzyme kinetics and Michaelis–Menten kinetics in 1913. Pic. | |||
||1949: Jerry Bittle born ... cartoonist. | ||1949: Jerry Bittle born ... cartoonist. | ||
||1949: Ashawna Hailey born ... computer scientist and philanthropist. | ||1949: Ashawna Hailey born ... computer scientist and philanthropist. | ||
||1967: New York Times publishes article "Two Men in Search of the Quark;" by Lee Edson on the work at Calif Inst of Tech by Professors Gell-Mann Feynman to find the "ultimate particle of matter" which they had labled a quark. | |||
||1973: Evan Tom Davies dies ... mathematician and linguist. He studied applications of the Lie derivative as it relates to Riemannian geometry as well as absolute differential calculus | ||1973: Evan Tom Davies dies ... mathematician and linguist. He studied applications of the Lie derivative as it relates to Riemannian geometry as well as absolute differential calculus | ||
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||1994: Mathematician Brian Hartley dies. He will specialize in group theory. Pic: http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/about-us/history/brian-hartley/ | ||1994: Mathematician Brian Hartley dies. He will specialize in group theory. Pic: http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/about-us/history/brian-hartley/ | ||
||1996: The U.S. Postal Service issued a special "Computer Technology" stamp to mark the 50th anniversary of the ENIAC. In a ceremony at the Army’s Aberdeen Proving Ground, speakers paid tribute to computer pioneers with the image of a brain partially covered by small blocs that contain parts of circuit boards and binary language. The stamp was designed entirely on a computer. | |||
||2001: U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security. | ||2001: U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security. | ||
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1860: Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.
1907: Author and illustrator Richard Sharpe Shaver born. He will write stories in which he claimed that he has had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.
1924: Mathematician and statistician John Nelder born. He will contribute to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory. He will also be responsible, with Max Nicholson and James Ferguson-Lees, for debunking the Hastings Rarities.
1925: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess stolen by math criminals.
1941: Mathematician and crime-fighter Joseph Wedderburn the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1942: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer Sergey Chaplygin dies. He is known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.
1946: Sea-creature and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter denies sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu.
1985: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author Gordon Welchman dies. During the Second World War, he developed traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.
2009: Physicist and crime-fighter Tullio Regge uses spin foam models to detect and prevent crimes against physics, warns that quantum gravity "may still be at risk."
2016: Butterfly voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.