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||1924 – Harvey Kurtzman, American cartoonist (d. 1993) | ||1924 – Harvey Kurtzman, American cartoonist (d. 1993) | ||
||Jack Kenneth Hale (born 3 October 1928) was an American mathematician working primarily in the field of dynamical systems and functional differential equations. | ||Jack Kenneth Hale (born 3 October 1928) was an American mathematician working primarily in the field of dynamical systems and functional differential equations. Nopic. | ||
||Bernard A. Galler (b. October 3, 1928) was an American mathematician and computer scientist at the University of Michigan who was involved in the development of large-scale operating systems and computer languages including the MAD programming language and the Michigan Terminal System operating system. Pic. | |||
File:Robin Farquharson.jpg|link=Robin Farquharson (nonfiction)|1930: Mathematician [[Robin Farquharson (nonfiction)|Robin Farquharson]] born. He will write an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as ''Theory of Voting''. | File:Robin Farquharson.jpg|link=Robin Farquharson (nonfiction)|1930: Mathematician [[Robin Farquharson (nonfiction)|Robin Farquharson]] born. He will write an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as ''Theory of Voting''. | ||
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1881: Mathematician and religious leader Orson Pratt dies. As part of his system of Mormon theology, Pratt embraced the philosophical doctrine of hylozoism.
1882: Canterbury scrying engine reprogrammed to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.
1930: Mathematician Robin Farquharson born. He will write an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as Theory of Voting.
2006: Mathematician and physicist John Crank dies. He worked on the numerical solution of partial differential equations; his work with Phyllis Nicolson on the heat equation resulted in the Crank–Nicolson method.
2012: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy dies. He is generally credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium could be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.
2017: Signed first edition of Malady sells for three and a half million dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.