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||AD 55: Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome. This clears the way for Nero to become Emperor. Pic: statue
||AD 55: Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome. This clears the way for Nero to become Emperor. Pic: statue


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||1865: Anders Wiman born ... mathematician .... His main focus of his research was algebraic geometry and applications of group theory to geometry and function theory. He introduced Wiman's sextic curve. Pic.
||1865: Anders Wiman born ... mathematician .... His main focus of his research was algebraic geometry and applications of group theory to geometry and function theory. He introduced Wiman's sextic curve. Pic.


||1868: Léon Foucault dies ... physicist and academic.
||1868: Léon Foucault dies ... physicist and academic ... best known for his demonstration of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation. He also made an early measurement of the speed of light, discovered eddy currents, and is credited with naming the gyroscope. Pic.


File:Georg Cantor diagonal argument.jpg|link=Georg Cantor|1884: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[Georg Cantor]] saves [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] from attack by [[crimes against mathematical constants|math criminals]].
File:Georg Cantor diagonal argument.jpg|link=Georg Cantor|1884: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[Georg Cantor]] saves [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] from attack by [[crimes against mathematical constants|math criminals]].
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File:Leo Szilard.jpg|link=Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|1898: Physicist and academic [[Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|Leo Szilard]] born. He will conceive the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patent the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.  
File:Leo Szilard.jpg|link=Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|1898: Physicist and academic [[Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|Leo Szilard]] born. He will conceive the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patent the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.  


||1899: Wolfgang Gröbner born ... was an Austrian mathematician. His name is best known for the Gröbner basis, used for computations in algebraic geometry. However, the theory of Gröbner bases for polynomial rings was developed by his student Bruno Buchberger in 1965, who named them for Gröbner.
||1899: Wolfgang Gröbner born ... was an Austrian mathematician. His name is best known for the Gröbner basis, used for computations in algebraic geometry. However, the theory of Gröbner bases for polynomial rings was developed by his student Bruno Buchberger in 1965, who named them for Gröbner. Pic.


||1909: Claude Chevalley born ... mathematician who made important contributions to number theory, algebraic geometry, class field theory, finite group theory, and the theory of algebraic groups. Pic.
||1909: Claude Chevalley born ... mathematician who made important contributions to number theory, algebraic geometry, class field theory, finite group theory, and the theory of algebraic groups. Pic.
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||1915: Richard Hamming born ... mathematician and academic ... His contributions include the Hamming code (which makes use of a Hamming matrix), the Hamming window, Hamming numbers, sphere-packing (or Hamming bound), and the Hamming distance. Pic.
||1915: Richard Hamming born ... mathematician and academic ... His contributions include the Hamming code (which makes use of a Hamming matrix), the Hamming window, Hamming numbers, sphere-packing (or Hamming bound), and the Hamming distance. Pic.


||1917: Oswaldo Cruz dies ... physician and epidemiologist.
||1917: Oswaldo Cruz dies ... physician, pioneer bacteriologist, epidemiologist and public health officer. Pic.


||1917: Andrzej Alexiewicz born ... mathematician ... worked in functional analysis, and continued and edited the work of Stefan Banach ... the Alexiewicz norm is an integral norm associated to the Henstock–Kurzweil integral. The Alexiewicz norm turns the space of Henstock–Kurzweil integrable functions into a topological vector space that is barrelled but not complete. Pic.
||1917: Andrzej Alexiewicz born ... mathematician ... worked in functional analysis, and continued and edited the work of Stefan Banach ... the Alexiewicz norm is an integral norm associated to the Henstock–Kurzweil integral. The Alexiewicz norm turns the space of Henstock–Kurzweil integrable functions into a topological vector space that is barrelled but not complete. Pic.
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||1918: Andrew Donald Booth born ... electrical engineer, physicist and computer scientist who was an early developer of the magnetic drum memory for computers and invented Booth's multiplication algorithm. Pic: https://www.i-programmer.info/history/people/1253-andrew-booth.html
||1918: Andrew Donald Booth born ... electrical engineer, physicist and computer scientist who was an early developer of the magnetic drum memory for computers and invented Booth's multiplication algorithm. Pic: https://www.i-programmer.info/history/people/1253-andrew-booth.html


||1920: Ernst Paul Specker born ... mathematician. Much of his most influential work was on Quine’s New Foundations, a set theory with a universal set, but he is most famous for the Kochen–Specker theorem in quantum mechanics, showing that certain types of hidden variable theories are impossible.
||1920: Ernst Paul Specker born ... mathematician. Much of his most influential work was on Quine’s New Foundations, a set theory with a universal set, but he is most famous for the Kochen–Specker theorem in quantum mechanics, showing that certain types of hidden variable theories are impossible. Pic.


||1921: Yozo Matsushima born ... mathematician.
||1921: Yozo Matsushima born ... mathematician. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Yozo+Matsushima


||1921: Jacques Friedel born ... physicist and material scientist. Pic.
||1921: Jacques Friedel born ... physicist and material scientist. Pic.
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||1938: BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
||1938: BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".


||1939, the journal Nature published a theoretical paper on nuclear fission. The term was coined by the authors Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch, her nephew. They knew that when a uranium nucleus was struck by neutrons, barium was produced. Seeking an explanation, they used Bohr's "liquid drop" model of the nucleus to envision the neutron inducing oscillations in a uranium nucleus, which would occasionally stretch out into the shape of a dumbbell. Sometimes, the repulsive forces between the protons in the two bulbous ends would cause the narrow waist joining them to pinch off and leave two nuclei where before there had been one. They calculated calculated the huge amounts of energy released. This was the basis for nuclear chain reaction.  https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-this-day-in-math-february-11.html
||1939: The journal ''Nature'' published a theoretical paper on nuclear fission. The term was coined by the authors Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch, her nephew. They knew that when a uranium nucleus was struck by neutrons, barium was produced. Seeking an explanation, they used Bohr's "liquid drop" model of the nucleus to envision the neutron inducing oscillations in a uranium nucleus, which would occasionally stretch out into the shape of a dumbbell. Sometimes, the repulsive forces between the protons in the two bulbous ends would cause the narrow waist joining them to pinch off and leave two nuclei where before there had been one. They calculated calculated the huge amounts of energy released. This was the basis for nuclear chain reaction.  https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-this-day-in-math-february-11.html


||1942: Egbert van Kampen dies .. mathematician. He made important contributions to topology, especially to the study of fundamental groups. Pic.
||1942: Egbert van Kampen dies .. mathematician. He made important contributions to topology, especially to the study of fundamental groups. Pic.
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File:Charles Critchfield ID badge.gif|link=Charles Critchfield (nonfiction)|1944: Mathematical physicist and crime-fighter [[Charles Critchfield (nonfiction)|Charles Critchfield]] uses burst of neutrons to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]].
File:Charles Critchfield ID badge.gif|link=Charles Critchfield (nonfiction)|1944: Mathematical physicist and crime-fighter [[Charles Critchfield (nonfiction)|Charles Critchfield]] uses burst of neutrons to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]].


||1947: Ronald J. DiPerna dies ... mathematician, who worked on nonlinear partial differential equations.
||1947: Ronald J. DiPerna dies ... mathematician, who worked on nonlinear partial differential equations. Pic.


||1953: U.S.President Dwight D. Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
||1953: U.S.President Dwight D. Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Pic.


||1959: Hardy Cross dies ... structural engineer and the developer of the moment distribution method for structural analysis of statically indeterminate structures. The method was in general use from c. 1935 until c. 1960 when it was gradually superseded by other methods. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Hardy+Cross
||1959: Hardy Cross dies ... structural engineer and the developer of the moment distribution method for structural analysis of statically indeterminate structures. The method was in general use from c. 1935 until c. 1960 when it was gradually superseded by other methods. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Hardy+Cross
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||1976: Dorothy Maud Wrinch dies ... mathematician, biochemist, and philosopher ... best known for her attempt to deduce protein structure using mathematical principles. She was a champion of the controversial 'cyclol' hypothesis for the structure of proteins. Pic.
||1976: Dorothy Maud Wrinch dies ... mathematician, biochemist, and philosopher ... best known for her attempt to deduce protein structure using mathematical principles. She was a champion of the controversial 'cyclol' hypothesis for the structure of proteins. Pic.


||1978: James Bryant Conant dies ... chemist, a transformative President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany.
||1978: James Bryant Conant dies ... chemist, a transformative President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany. Pic.


||1981: Around 100,000 US gallons (380 m3) of radioactive coolant leak into the containment building of TVA Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in Tennessee, contaminating eight workers.
||1981: Around 100,000 US gallons (380 m3) of radioactive coolant leak into the containment building of TVA Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in Tennessee, contaminating eight workers.
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||2003 NASA's WMAP satellite completes the first detailed cosmic microwave background radiation map of the universe. The image reveals the universe is 13.7 billion years old (within one percent error) and provides evidence that supports the inflationary theory. *Wik  
||2003 NASA's WMAP satellite completes the first detailed cosmic microwave background radiation map of the universe. The image reveals the universe is 13.7 billion years old (within one percent error) and provides evidence that supports the inflationary theory. *Wik  


||2006: Then U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney shot Harry Whittington, a 78-year-old Texas attorney, while participating in a quail hunt on a ranch in Riviera, Texas.
||2006: Then U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney shot Harry Whittington, a 78-year-old Texas attorney, while participating in a quail hunt on a ranch in Riviera, Texas. Pic.


||2008: Alexander Andreevich Samarskii dies ... mathematician and academician specializing in mathematical physics, applied mathematics, numerical analysis, mathematical modeling, and finite difference methods. Pic.
||2008: Alexander Andreevich Samarskii dies ... mathematician and academician specializing in mathematical physics, applied mathematics, numerical analysis, mathematical modeling, and finite difference methods. Pic.


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  • 1617: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini dies. He supported a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.

    1617: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini dies. He supported a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.

  • 1618: Writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes publishes his essay Man's Inhumanity to Man, which will profoundly influence three generations of Enlightenment-era thinkers.

    1618: Writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes publishes his essay Man's Inhumanity to Man, which will profoundly influence three generations of Enlightenment-era thinkers.

  • 1650: Mathematician and philosopher René Descartes dies. He is remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.

    1650: Mathematician and philosopher René Descartes dies. He is remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.

  • 1760: First known use of Japanese rod calculus to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1760: First known use of Japanese rod calculus to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1847: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison born. He will develop the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.

    1847: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison born. He will develop the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.

  • 1884: Set theorist and crime-fighter Georg Cantor saves Edward Lear from attack by math criminals.

    1884: Set theorist and crime-fighter Georg Cantor saves Edward Lear from attack by math criminals.

  • 1898: Physicist and academic Leo Szilard born. He will conceive the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patent the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.

    1898: Physicist and academic Leo Szilard born. He will conceive the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patent the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.

  • 1930: Mathematician, statistician, and crime-fighter Oskar Anderson publishes new theory of mathematical statistics based on Gnomon algorithm functions with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1930: Mathematician, statistician, and crime-fighter Oskar Anderson publishes new theory of mathematical statistics based on Gnomon algorithm functions with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1931: Engineer and inventor Charles Algernon Parsons dies. He invented the compound steam turbine, and worked on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.

    1931: Engineer and inventor Charles Algernon Parsons dies. He invented the compound steam turbine, and worked on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.

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    1944: Mathematical physicist and crime-fighter Charles Critchfield uses burst of neutrons to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.

  • 1973: Nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize laureate J. Hans D. Jensen dies. He shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.

    1973: Nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize laureate J. Hans D. Jensen dies. He shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.

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