On June 28, 2009, he threw a “party”, but no one showed up. Who was the party for?

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For Time Travelers. He announced the party after it was over.

The mad scientist should be tweeting and posting to Facebook again. Lets see if that works.

A particular thing (tool) found on almost every man made machine is named after this guy. Who is he?

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Henry F. Phillips, inventor of the Phillips screwdriver

Newton wrote it like this

, Lagrange wrote it like this and Euler wrote it with just the first letter of the function’s name. However, the most widely used notation for the function was written by this guy.

Who is he (AutoRaja will be happy), What function are we talking about, how did he write it?

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz wrote differentiation function as dy/dx, which is the most widely used notation for differentiation since it makes it explicit which variable is differentiated with which.

What be happenin’ here? What be it known as? Bonus points fer tellin’ us which ghost ship legend be thought to have emerged from ’tis.

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Fata Morgana - the optical illusion that makes it seem ships are flying. Led to the legend of the “Flying Dutchman”.