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||1927 – Serge Lang, French-American mathematician, author and academic (d. 2005) | ||1927 – Serge Lang, French-American mathematician, author and academic (d. 2005) | ||
||Rudolf Emil Kálmán (b. May 19, 1930) was a Hungarian-born American electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor. He was most noted for his co-invention and development of the Kalman filter, a mathematical algorithm that is widely used in signal processing, control systems, and guidance, navigation and control. Pic. | |||
||Friederich Pius Philipp Furtwängler (d. May 19, 1940) was a German number theorist. | ||Friederich Pius Philipp Furtwängler (d. May 19, 1940) was a German number theorist. | ||
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1883: Signed first edition of Interview with Wallace War-Heels stolen. It will later be recovered by Niles Cartouchian and returned to the Smithsonian Museum.
1903: Bacteriologist Ruth Ella Moore born. She will publish work on tuberculosis, immunology and dental caries, the response of gut microorganisms to antibiotics, and the blood type of African-Americans.
1954: Computer programmer Jean Bartik discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1961: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).