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File:Glenn Seaborg.jpg|link=Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|1961: Chemist [[Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|Glenn T. Seaborg]] discovers new hydrogen isotope with important applications in the diagnosis and treatment of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Glenn Seaborg.jpg|link=Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|1961: Chemist [[Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|Glenn T. Seaborg]] discovers new hydrogen isotope with important applications in the diagnosis and treatment of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||Edwin Thompson Jaynes (d. April 30, 1998) was the Wayman Crow Distinguished Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis. He wrote extensively on statistical mechanics and on foundations of probability and statistical inference, initiating in 1957 the MaxEnt interpretation of thermodynamics, as being a particular application of more general Bayesian/information theory techniques (although he argued this was already implicit in the works of Gibbs). Jaynes strongly promoted the interpretation of probability theory as an extension of logic. | |||
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1523: Mathematician and cartographer Oronce Finé uses Judicial astrology (nonfiction) to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1777: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss born. He will have an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and be ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.
1874: Scene from Gambling Den Fight adapted for opera, performed at theaters across Europe to rave reviews.
1916: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist Claude Shannon born.
1961: Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg discovers new hydrogen isotope with important applications in the diagnosis and treatment of crimes against mathematical constants.