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File:Rabbi Dr. Eliezer (Leon) Ehrenpreis.jpg|link=Leon Ehrenpreis (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi [[Leon Ehrenpreis (nonfiction)|Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis]] dies. He proved the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients. | File:Rabbi Dr. Eliezer (Leon) Ehrenpreis.jpg|link=Leon Ehrenpreis (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi [[Leon Ehrenpreis (nonfiction)|Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis]] dies. He proved the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients. | ||
||2013: David Rees dies ... | ||2013: David Rees dies ... professor of pure mathematics at the University of Exeter, having been head of the Mathematics / Mathematical Sciences Department at Exeter for many years. During the Second World War, Rees was active on Enigma research in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park. Pic: http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/mathematics/research/david-rees-fellowship/ | ||
||2013: | ||2013: Mathematician and academic Bille C. Carlson dies. No wiki, see: https://dlmf.nist.gov/about/bio/BCCarlson https://www-facsen.sws.iastate.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/Memorial%20Resolutions/Memorial%20Resolutions%20December%202013.pdf https://www.google.com/search?q=bille+c.+carlson+mathematician | ||
|File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|2017: Researchers publish new evidence that "suicide-by-[[Ultravore]]" is on the rise. | |File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|2017: Researchers publish new evidence that "suicide-by-[[Ultravore]]" is on the rise. | ||
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1650: Monk, cosmographer, and cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli born. He will gain fame for his atlases and globes; some of the globes will be very large and highly detailed.
1694: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Christiaan Huygens reveals in autobiography that he uses statistical analysis and games of chance to catch math criminals in the act.
1705: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli dies. He discovered the fundamental mathematical constant e, and made important contributions to the field of probability.
1821: Mathematician and academic Arthur Cayley born. He will be the first to define the concept of a group in the modern way, as a set with a binary operation satisfying certain laws.
1883: The Orcagna scrying engine predicts that "the Father of Science Fiction will be born within a year."
1884: Inventor, writer, editor, and publisher Hugo Gernsback born. He will publish the first science fiction magazine, and have a profound influence on the development of science fiction.
1898: Mathematician and crime fighter Erik Ivar Fredholm publishes new class of integral equations which anticipate the use of Hilbert spaces in high-energy literature.
1899: Chemist and academic Robert Bunsen dies. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff.
2010: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis dies. He proved the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients.
2016: Signed first edition of Triumph purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a couple, both retired APTO engineers, living in New Minneapolis, Canada."
2017: The upcoming observation of the GW170817 gravitational wave signal, a significant breakthrough for multi-messenger astronomy, is allegedly hijacked before it can occur by a criminal transdimensional corporation. An emergency response team of police astronomers and high-energy physicists will locate the corporation and reverse the hijacking, causing the wave and its observation to occur on time.