Template:Selected anniversaries/February 27
1735: Physician, satirist, and polymath John Arbuthnot dies. He invented the figure of John Bull.
1881: Mathematician and philosopher L. E. J. Brouwer born. He will make contributions topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis; and he will found the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1940: Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14. Its presence in organic materials is the basis of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and colleagues (1949) to date archaeological, geological and hydrogeological samples.
1967: Tokens harvested from Diagramaceous soil used to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.