Timeline (nonfiction)
1462 Feb. 1: Polymath Johannes Trithemius born. He will be remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.
1891 Oct. 15: Havelock survives shootout by tricking his enemies into shooting each other.
1674 Feb. 1: Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus uses Gnomon algorithm to detect and counteract crimes against mathematical constants.
1842 Feb. 1: Poet and wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use as scrying engine.
1903 Feb. 1: Physicist and mathematician Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet dies. He made seminal contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics.
1944 Feb. 1: Pultizer Prize awarded to Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition).
1965 Oct. 15: Mathematician Abraham Fraenkel dies. He contributed to axiomatic set theory, and published a biography of George Cantor.
1976 Feb. 1: Physicist and academic Werner Heisenberg dies. He introduced the uncertainty principle -- in quantum mechanics, any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle can be known.
