Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.
J. Dash, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, A Life of One's Own.
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August 6th
| 1694 | Antoine Arnauld died in Brussels, Belgium. Born in Paris in 1612, he wrote books on linguistics, grammar, and geometry, the first two (!) influenced by Descartes.
More information about: Antoine Arnauld Rene Descartes |
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| 1741 | John Wilson, of Wilson's Theorem from number theory, born in Applethwaite, England.
More information about: John Wilson |
| 1945 | Atomic bomb explosion. The U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb exploded over a populated area, Hiroshima, Japan, from the Enola Gay, a B-29 bomber, killing tens of thousands of people. A number of American and European mathematicians helped design the atomic bomb.
More information about: Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings |
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