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||1635: Johann Faulhaber dies | File:|link=Johann Faulhaber (nonfiction)|1635: Mathematician [[Johann Faulhaber (nonfiction)|Johann Faulhaber]] dies. Faulhaber calculated the sums of powers of integers. | ||
||1732: Jacques d'Allonville dies ... astronomer and mathematician. Pic search. | ||1732: Jacques d'Allonville dies ... astronomer and mathematician. Pic search. | ||
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File:Dalton Trumbo prison 1950.jpg|link=Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|1976: Screenwriter and novelist [[Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|Dalton Trumbo]] dies. He was blacklisted for refusing testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947; while blacklisted, he won Academy Awards for two films: ''Roman Holiday'', attributed to a front author, and ''The Brave One'' under the pseudonym Robert Rich. | File:Dalton Trumbo prison 1950.jpg|link=Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|1976: Screenwriter and novelist [[Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|Dalton Trumbo]] dies. He was blacklisted for refusing testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947; while blacklisted, he won Academy Awards for two films: ''Roman Holiday'', attributed to a front author, and ''The Brave One'' under the pseudonym Robert Rich. | ||
||1983: Felix Bloch dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1983: Felix Bloch dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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||2014: Edward Nelson dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||2014: Edward Nelson dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
File:Greedy algorithm 36 cents.svg|link=Greedy algorithm (nonfiction)|2017: New study of algorithmic paradigms finds that [[Greedy algorithm (nonfiction)|Greedy algorithms]] are studied more often than other algorithmic paradigms. | |File:Greedy algorithm 36 cents.svg|link=Greedy algorithm (nonfiction)|2017: New study of algorithmic paradigms finds that [[Greedy algorithm (nonfiction)|Greedy algorithms]] are studied more often than other algorithmic paradigms. | ||
File:Red Spiral.jpg|link=Red Spiral (nonfiction)|2018: ''[[Red Spiral (nonfiction)|Red Spiral]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | File:Red Spiral.jpg|link=Red Spiral (nonfiction)|2018: ''[[Red Spiral (nonfiction)|Red Spiral]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | ||
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1749: Mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet born. She translated and commented upon on Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica.
1849: Mathematician and philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce born. He wil be remembered as "the father of pragmatism".
1892: American physicist and academic Arthur Compton born. He will win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, demonstrating the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.
1975: Mathematician, computer scientist, and crime-fighter Andrzej Trybulec uses the Mizar system to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1976: Screenwriter and novelist Dalton Trumbo dies. He was blacklisted for refusing testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947; while blacklisted, he won Academy Awards for two films: Roman Holiday, attributed to a front author, and The Brave One under the pseudonym Robert Rich.
2018: Red Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
