Leopold Kronecker

Leopold Kronecker (German: [ˈkʁoːnɛkɐ]; 7 December 1823 – 29 December 1891) was a German mathematician who worked on number theory, algebra and logic. He criticized Georg Cantor’s work on set theory, and was quoted by Weber (1893) as having said, “Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk” (“God made the integers, all else is the work of man”). Kronecker was a student and lifelong friend of Ernst Kummer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Kronecker

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Fornicate

fornicate
■ verb formal or humorous have sexual intercourse with someone one is not married to.

fornication noun
fornicator noun

C16 (earlier (ME) as fornication): from eccles. L. fornicat-, fornicari ‘to arch’, from L. fornix, fornic- ‘vaulted chamber’, later ‘brothel’.

Merriam-Webster Collegiate® Dictionary
for·ni·cate
Pronunciation: ‘fȯr-nə-ˌkāt
Function: verb
Inflected Form: -cat·ed ; -cat·ing
Etymology: Late Latin fornicatus, past participle of fornicare to have intercourse with prostitutes, from Latin fornic-, fornix arch, vault, brothel
Date: 1552

intransitive verb : to commit fornication
transitive verb : to commit fornication with
–for·ni·ca·tor -ˌkā-tər\ noun

English-Serbian dictionary
Fornicate
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Diprotodon

Diprotodon (Ancient Greek: “two protruding front teeth”) is an extinct genus of marsupial from the Pleistocene of Australia containing one speciesD. optatum. The earliest finds date to 1.77 million to 780,000 years ago but most specimens are dated to after 110,000 years ago. Its remains were first unearthed in 1830 in Wellington CavesNew South Wales, and contemporaneous paleontologists guessed they belonged to rhinoselephantshippos or dugongsDiprotodon was formally described by English naturalist Richard Owen in 1838, and was the first named Australian fossil mammal, and led Owen to become the foremost authority of his time on other marsupials and Australian megafauna, which were enigmatic to European science.

Diprotodon is the largest-known marsupial to have ever lived, it greatly exceeds the size of its closest living relatives wombats and koalas. It is a member of the extinct family Diprotodontidae, which includes other large quadrupedal herbivores. It grew as large as 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) at the shoulders, over 4 m (13 ft) from head to tail, and possibly weighed almost 3,500 kg (7,700 lb). Females were much smaller than males. Diprotodon supported itself on elephant-like legs to travel long distances, and inhabited most of Australia. The digits were weak; most of the weight was probably borne on the wrists and ankles. The hindpaws angled inward at 130°. Its jaws may have produced a strong bite force of 2,300 newtons (520 pounds-force) at the long and ever-growing incisor teeth, and over 11,000 newtons (2,500 lbf) at the last molar. Such powerful jaws would have allowed it to eat vegetation in bulk, crunching and grinding plant materials such as twigs, buds and leaves of woody plants with its bilophodont teeth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diprotodon

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Alonzo Church

Alonzo Church (June 14, 1903 – August 11, 1995) was an American mathematiciancomputer scientistlogician, and philosopher who made major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science. He is best known for the lambda calculus, the Church–Turing thesis, proving the unsolvability of the Entscheidungsproblem (“decision problem”), the Frege–Church ontology, and the Church–Rosser theorem. He also worked on philosophy of language (see e.g. Church 1970). Alongside his doctoral student Alan Turing, Church is considered one of the founders of computer science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonzo_Church

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Mississippi Bubble | 18th Century Financial Crisis, French History

Mississippi Bubble, a financial scheme in 18th-century France that triggered a speculative frenzy and ended in financial collapse. The scheme was engineered by John Law, a Scottish adventurer, economic theorist, and financial wizard who was a friend of the regent, the Duke d’Orléans. In 1716 Law established the Banque Générale, a bank with the authority to issue notes. A year later he established the Compagnie d’Occident (“Company of the West”) and obtained for it exclusive privileges to develop the vast French territories in the Mississippi River valley of North America. Law’s company also soon monopolized the French tobacco and African slave trades, and by 1719 the Compagnie des Indes (“Company of the Indies”), as it had been renamed, held a complete monopoly of France’s colonial trade. Law also took over the collection of French taxes and the minting of money; in effect, he controlled both the country’s foreign trade and its finances.

Given the potential for profits involved, public demand for shares in the Compagnie des Indes increased sharply, sending the price for a share from 500 to 18,000 livres, which was out of all proportion to earnings. By 1719 Law had issued approximately 625,000 stock shares, and he soon afterward merged the Banque Générale with the Compagnie des Indes. Law hoped to retire the vast public debt accumulated during the later years of Louis XIV’s reign by selling his company’s shares to the public in exchange for state-issued public securities, or billets d’état, which consequently also rose sharply in value. A frenzy of wild speculation ensued that led to a general stock-market boom across Europe. The French government took advantage of this situation by printing increased amounts of paper money, which was readily accepted by the state’s creditors because it could be used to buy more shares of the Compagnie. This went on until the excessive issue of paper money stimulated galloping inflation, and both the paper money and the billets d’état began to lose their value. Meanwhile the expected profits from the company’s colonial ventures were slow to materialize, and the intricate linking of the company’s stock with the state’s finances ended in complete disaster in 1720, when the value of the shares plummeted, causing a general stock market crash in France and other countries. Though the crash was not directly attributable to Law, he was the obvious scapegoat and was forced to flee France in December 1720. The enormous debts of his company and bank were soon afterward consolidated and taken over by the state, which raised taxes in order to retire it.

https://www.britannica.com/money/topic/Mississippi-Bubble

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Mercury 7 astronauts peer vote

Prior to naming Alan Shepard as the pilot for the first US human spaceflight, Bob Gilruth asked the seven Mercury astronauts for a peer vote. To the best of my knowledge, Gilruth never publicly revealed the results. In fact he stated that he destroyed the responses.

According to the individual astronauts:

  • John Glenn voted for Scott Carpenter
  • Carpenter voted for Glenn
  • Wally Schirra voted for Shepard
  • Gordon Cooper voted for Gus Grissom

Shepard’s, Grissom’s and Deke Slayton’s votes are unknown (at least to me anyway).

http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum38/HTML/001164.html

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