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||1635: Sir Charles Cavendish writes to William Oughtred to thank him for teaching him, "the way of calculating the divisions of your guaging rod." He also passes on praise for Oughtred’s, “Clavis is in great estimation amongst the mathematicians at Paris.“ *Augustus De Morgan, Correspondence of scientific men of the seventeenth century ..., Volume 1 https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-this-day-in-math-february-11.html
||1635: Sir Charles Cavendish writes to William Oughtred to thank him for teaching him, "the way of calculating the divisions of your guaging rod." He also passes on praise for Oughtred’s, “Clavis is in great estimation amongst the mathematicians at Paris.“ *Augustus De Morgan, Correspondence of scientific men of the seventeenth century ..., Volume 1 https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-this-day-in-math-february-11.html


File:René Descartes.jpg|link=René Descartes (nonfiction)|1650: Mathematician and philosopher [[René Descartes (nonfiction)|René Descartes]] dies. He is remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.
File:René Descartes.jpg|link=René Descartes (nonfiction)|1650: Mathematician and philosopher [[René Descartes (nonfiction)|René Descartes]] dies. Descartes is remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.


||1657: Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle dies ... author and an influential member of three of the academies of the Institut de France, noted especially for his accessible treatment of scientific topics during the unfolding of the Age of Enlightenment. Pic.
||1657: Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle dies ... author and an influential member of three of the academies of the Institut de France, noted especially for his accessible treatment of scientific topics during the unfolding of the Age of Enlightenment. Pic.
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||1839: Almon Brown Strowger born ... inventor who gave his name to the Strowger switch, an electromechanical telephone exchange technology that his invention and patent inspired. Pic.
||1839: Almon Brown Strowger born ... inventor who gave his name to the Strowger switch, an electromechanical telephone exchange technology that his invention and patent inspired. Pic.


File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1847: Inventor, engineer, and businessman [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] born. He will develop the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1847: Inventor, engineer, and businessman [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] born. Edison will develop the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.


||1862: Francis Sowerby Macaulay born ... mathematician who made significant contributions to algebraic geometry. Cohen–Macaulay rings, Macaulay duality, the Macaulay resultant are named after him. Pic.
||1862: Francis Sowerby Macaulay born ... mathematician who made significant contributions to algebraic geometry. Cohen–Macaulay rings, Macaulay duality, the Macaulay resultant are named after him. Pic.
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||1897: Emil Leon Post born ... mathematician and logician. Pic.
||1897: Emil Leon Post born ... mathematician and logician. Pic.


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. Szilard 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. Pic.
||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.
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File:Oskar_Anderson.jpg|link=Oskar Anderson (nonfiction)|1930: Mathematician, statistician, and crime-fighter [[Oskar Anderson (nonfiction)|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]].
File:Oskar_Anderson.jpg|link=Oskar Anderson (nonfiction)|1930: Mathematician, statistician, and crime-fighter [[Oskar Anderson (nonfiction)|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]].


File:Charles Algernon Parsons.jpg|link=Charles Algernon Parsons (nonfiction)|1931: Engineer and inventor [[Charles Algernon Parsons (nonfiction)|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.
File:Charles Algernon Parsons.jpg|link=Charles Algernon Parsons (nonfiction)|1931: Engineer and inventor [[Charles Algernon Parsons (nonfiction)|Charles Algernon Parsons]] dies. Parsons invented the compound steam turbine, and worked on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.


||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".
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||1971: Eighty-seven countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union, sign the Seabed Arms Control Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters.
||1971: Eighty-seven countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union, sign the Seabed Arms Control Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters.


File:Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen.jpg|link=J. Hans D. Jensen (nonfiction)|1973: Nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize laureate [[J. Hans D. Jensen (nonfiction)|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.  
File:Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen.jpg|link=J. Hans D. Jensen (nonfiction)|1973: Nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize laureate [[J. Hans D. Jensen (nonfiction)|J. Hans D. Jensen]] dies. Jensen shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.  


||1974: Vladimir Smirnov dies ... mathematician who made significant contributions in both pure and applied mathematics, and also in the history of mathematics. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Vladimir+Ivanovich+Smirnov
||1974: Vladimir Smirnov dies ... mathematician who made significant contributions in both pure and applied mathematics, and also in the history of mathematics. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Vladimir+Ivanovich+Smirnov

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  • 1617: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini dies. Mangini supported a geocentric system of the world, and defended the use of astrology in medicine, but also made practical contributions to mathematics and physics.

    1617: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini dies. Mangini supported a geocentric system of the world, and defended the use of astrology in medicine, but also made practical contributions to mathematics and physics.

  • 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. Descartes is remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.

    1650: Mathematician and philosopher René Descartes dies. Descartes 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. Edison will develop the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.

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

  • 1898: Physicist and academic Leo Szilard born. Szilard 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. Szilard 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. Parsons 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. Parsons 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. Jensen 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. Jensen shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.

  • 2008: Mathematician and academic Alexander Andreevich Samarskii dies. Samarskii contributed to applied mathematics, numerical analysis, mathematical modeling, and finite difference methods.

    2008: Mathematician and academic Alexander Andreevich Samarskii dies. Samarskii contributed to applied mathematics, numerical analysis, mathematical modeling, and finite difference methods.

  • 2019: Wheel of Fire 2 is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2019: Wheel of Fire 2 is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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