FAMOUS DEATHS ON 5th OCTOBER

• Lodovico Ferrari 

 was an Italian mathematician. Born in Bologna, Italy, Lodovico's grandfather, Bartholomew Ferrari, was forced out of Milan to Bologna. Lodovico settled in Bologna, Italy and he began his career as the servant of Gerolamo Cardano. He was extremely bright, so Cardano started teaching him mathematics. Ferrari aided Cardano on his solutions for quadratic equations and cubic equations, and was mainly responsible for the solution of quartic equations that Cardano published. While still in his teens, Ferrari was able to obtain a prestigious teaching post after Cardano resigned from it and recommended him. Ferrari eventually retired young (only 42) and quite rich. He then moved back to his home town of Bologna where he lived with his widowed sister Maddalena to take up a professorship of mathematics at the University of Bologna in 1565. Shortly thereafter, he died of white arsenic poisoning, according to a legend - because of his sister.

BORN: February 2, 1522, Bologna, Italy

DIED: October 5, 1565, Bologna, Italy

INFLUENCED BY: Gerolamo Cardano

FIELD: Mathematics

1964-05-31 Scarfiotti, Ludovico Ferrari

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• Steve Jobs

  
  

  

  STEVE JOBS

  Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs  was an American information technology entrepreneur and inventor. He was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc.; CEO and majority shareholder of Pixar Animation Studios. a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and founder, chairman, and CEO of Next Inc. Jobs is widely recognized as a pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Shortly after his death, Jobs's official biographer, Walter Isaacson, described him as a "creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing."
  
  

  

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  Jobs's counter cultural lifestyle and philosophy was a product of the time and place of his upbringing. Jobs was adopted at birth in San Francisco, and raised in a hotbed of counterculture, the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1960s. As a senior at Homestead High School in Cupertino, California, his two closest friends were the older engineering student (and Homestead High alumnus) Wozniak and his girlfriend, the artistically inclined and counter cultural Homestead High junior Chrisann Brennan. Jobs and Wozniak bonded over their mutual fascination with Jobs's musical idol Bob Dylan, discussing his lyrics and collecting bootleg reel-to-reel tapes of Dylan's concerts. Jobs later dated Joan Baez who notably had a prior relationship with Dylan. Jobs briefly attended Reed College in 1972 before dropping out. He then decided to travel through India in 1974 seeking enlightenment and studying Zen Buddhism. Jobs's declassified FBI report says an acquaintance knew that Jobs used illegal drugs in college including marijuana and LSD. Jobs told a reporter once that taking LSD was "one of the two or three most important things" he did in his life.
  Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976 to sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. The duo gained fame and wealth a year later for the Apple II, one of the first highly successful mass-produced personal computers. In 1979, after a tour of Xerox PARC, Jobs saw the commercial potential of the Xerox Alto, which was mouse-driven and had a graphical user interface (GUI). This led to development of the unsuccessful Apple Lisa in 1983, followed by the very successful Macintosh in 1984. In addition to being the first mass-produced computer with a GUI, the Macintosh instigated the sudden rise of the desktop publishing industry in 1985 with the addition of the Apple LaserWriter, the first laser printer to feature vector graphics. Following a long power struggle, Jobs was forced out of Apple in 1985.^[10]
  After leaving Apple, Jobs took a few of its members with him to found Next, a computer platform development company specializing in state-of-the-art computers for higher-education and business markets. In addition, Jobs helped to initiate the development of the visual effects industry when he funded the spinout of the computer graphics division of George Lucas's company Lucas film in 1986.^[] The new company, Pixar, would eventually produce the first fully computer-animated film, Toy Story—an event made possible in part because of Jobs's financial support.
  In 1997, Apple purchased Next, allowing Jobs to become the former's CEO once again. He would return the company, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, back to profitability. Beginning in 1997 with the "Think different" advertising campaign, Jobs worked closely with designer Jonathan Ive to develop a line of products that would have larger cultural ramifications: the iMac, iTunes, Apple Stores, the iPod, the iTunes Store, the iPhone, the App Store, and the iPad. Mac OS was also revamped into Mac OS X, based on NeXT's NeXTSTEP platform.
  Jobs was diagnosed with a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor in 2003 and died of respiratory arrest related to the tumor on October 5, 2011.
  
  
  Steve Jobs/Quotes
  Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.
  Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
  Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
  Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. 

  It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

  Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

  I want to put a ding in the universe.

  My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

  Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

  I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

  

  Born: February 24, 1955, San Francisco, California, United States

  Died: October 5, 2011, Palo Alto, California, United States

  Spouse: Laurene Powell (m. 1991–2011)

  Education: Reed College (1972–1974), 

  Children: Lisa Brennan-Jobs, Erin Siena Jobs, Eve Jobs, Reed Jobs

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