Template:Selected anniversaries/February 7
1877: Mathematician and geneticist G. H. Hardy born. He will prefer his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.
1897: Physicist and electrical engineer Galileo Ferraris dies. He was a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor.
1901: Mathematician Giuseppe Peano develops new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on space-filling curves.
1898: Novelist, playwright, and journalist Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'accuse.
1925: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1946: The United States Army Signal Corps modifies Project Diana antenna to compute new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.