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File:Deep Impact.png|link=Deep Impact (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2005: [[Deep Impact (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Deep Impact]] launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket. It will be the first spacecraft to eject material from a comet's surface. | File:Deep Impact.png|link=Deep Impact (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2005: [[Deep Impact (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Deep Impact]] launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket. It will be the first spacecraft to eject material from a comet's surface. | ||
||2009: Arne Næss dies ... philosopher and environmentalist. He will be an important intellectual and inspirational figure within the environmental movement of the late twentieth century, advocating for biological diversity and the understanding that each living thing is dependent on the existence of other creatures in the complex web of interrelationships. He will coin the phrase "deep ecology". Pic. | |||
||2012: Basil Gordon dies ... mathematician at UCLA, specializing in number theory and combinatorics.[1] He obtained his Ph.D. at California Institute of Technology under the supervision of Tom Apostol. Ken Ono was one of his students. Gordon is well known for Göllnitz–Gordon identities, generalizing the Rogers–Ramanujan identities.[2] He also posed the still-unsolved Gaussian moat problem in 1962. Pic: https://www.math.ucla.edu/news/memoriam-basil-gordon-professor-mathematics-emeritus-1931-%E2%80%93-2012 | ||2012: Basil Gordon dies ... mathematician at UCLA, specializing in number theory and combinatorics.[1] He obtained his Ph.D. at California Institute of Technology under the supervision of Tom Apostol. Ken Ono was one of his students. Gordon is well known for Göllnitz–Gordon identities, generalizing the Rogers–Ramanujan identities.[2] He also posed the still-unsolved Gaussian moat problem in 1962. Pic: https://www.math.ucla.edu/news/memoriam-basil-gordon-professor-mathematics-emeritus-1931-%E2%80%93-2012 | ||
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1665: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat dies. He is recognized for his discovery of an original method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved lines, which is analogous to that of differential calculus, then unknown.
1665: The San Pietro scrying engine spontaneously generates an elegy for Pierre de Fermat.
1875: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to perform scrying engine functions.
1876: Author Jack London born. He will become one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.
1909: Mathematician and academic Hermann Minkowski dies. He showed that Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity can be understood geometrically as a theory of four-dimensional space–time, since known as the "Minkowski spacetime".
2005: Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket. It will be the first spacecraft to eject material from a comet's surface.