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||1870: Carl August von Steinheil dies ... physicist, inventor, engineer and astronomer. Pic. | ||1870: Carl August von Steinheil dies ... physicist, inventor, engineer and astronomer. Pic. | ||
||1873: Simion Stoilow born ... mathematician and academic. He contributed to complex analysis. Pic. | |||
||1879: Karl Heinrich Emil Becker born ... weapons engineer and artillery general. He advocated and implemented close ties of the military to science for purposes of advanced weapons development. Pic. | ||1879: Karl Heinrich Emil Becker born ... weapons engineer and artillery general. He advocated and implemented close ties of the military to science for purposes of advanced weapons development. Pic. | ||
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||1906: Franz Rellich born ... mathematician. He made important contributions in mathematical physics, in particular for the foundations of quantum mechanics and for the theory of partial differential equations. The Rellich–Kondrachov theorem is named after him. Pic. | ||1906: Franz Rellich born ... mathematician. He made important contributions in mathematical physics, in particular for the foundations of quantum mechanics and for the theory of partial differential equations. The Rellich–Kondrachov theorem is named after him. Pic. | ||
||1912: Georg Landsberg dies ... mathematician, known for his work in the theory of algebraic functions and on the Riemann–Roch theorem. The Takagi–Landsberg curve, a fractal that is the graph of a nowhere-differentiable but uniformly continuous function, is named after Teiji Takagi and him. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Georg_Landsberg_(HeidICON_28864).jpg | ||1912: Georg Landsberg dies ... mathematician, known for his work in the theory of algebraic functions and on the Riemann–Roch theorem. The Takagi–Landsberg curve, a fractal that is the graph of a nowhere-differentiable but uniformly continuous function, is named after Teiji Takagi and him. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Georg_Landsberg_(HeidICON_28864).jpg | ||
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1712: Mathematician, astronomer, and engineer Giovanni Domenico Cassini dies. He discovered four satellites of the planet Saturn and noted the division of the rings of Saturn; the Cassini Division was named after him.
1713: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman.
1894: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1960: The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
2009: Mathematician and academic Hans F. Weinberger visits the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada, where he gives an impromptu lecture on applications of variational methods for eigenvalue problems in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
2018: Pilgrim declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.