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||1667: Grégoire de Saint-Vincent dies ... Jesuit and mathematician. He is remembered for his work on quadrature of the hyperbola. Grégoire gave the "clearest early account of the summation of geometric series."[1]:136 He also resolved Zeno's paradox by showing that the time intervals involved formed a geometric progression and thus had a finite sum. Pic. Challenge AMA says born Sept. 9. | ||1667: Grégoire de Saint-Vincent dies ... Jesuit and mathematician. He is remembered for his work on quadrature of the hyperbola. Grégoire gave the "clearest early account of the summation of geometric series."[1]:136 He also resolved Zeno's paradox by showing that the time intervals involved formed a geometric progression and thus had a finite sum. Pic. Challenge AMA says born Sept. 9. | ||
||1716: Roger Cotes dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||1716: Roger Cotes dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic (bust). | ||
||1753: Johann Friedrich August Göttling born ... chemist. | ||1753: Johann Friedrich August Göttling born ... chemist. Pic (document). | ||
File:Jean-Antoine Chaptal.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|1756: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist [[Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal]] born. | File:Jean-Antoine Chaptal.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|1756: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist [[Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal]] born. | ||
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1756: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal born.
1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military Gnomon algorithm functions.
1865: Council of algorithms announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.
1900: Physicist and engineer Dennis Gabor born. He will invent holography, for which he will receive the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.
1910: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, dies.
2004: John Brunner publishes history of crimes against mathematical constants.
2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury dies. The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
2016: Signed first edition of Mad King stolen from the Tate in London by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.
2019: Signed first edition of Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1) purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a well-known Gnomon algorithm theorist living in New Minneapolis, Canada."