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File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] dies. He proved that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant. | File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] dies. He proved that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant. | ||
||1940: Westinghouse patent application for the Nimatron, a machine to play the game of Nim, is approved. Created by Eduard Condon, Edgewood Tawney, Gerald Tawney, and Willard Dorr, the machine would be featured in the Westinghouse exhibit at the 1940 World's Fair. The machine played 100,000 games at the fair, winning about 90,000. Most of its defeats were apparently administered by attendants to demonstrate that possibility. When the machine did lose it would "present its opponent with a token coin stamped with the words 'Nim Champ'". https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimatron | |||
||1945: Hans Geiger dies ... physicist and academic, co-invented the Geiger counter. | ||1945: Hans Geiger dies ... physicist and academic, co-invented the Geiger counter. | ||
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1501: Gerolamo Cardano born. He will be one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance.
1624: Renaissance-era mechanical soldier Clock Head uses Gnomon algorithm functions to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1625: Mathematician and politician Johan de Witt born. He will derive the basic properties of quadratic forms, an important step in the field of linear algebra.
1934: Writer and peace activist John Brunner born.
1937: Alice Beta Paragliding published. Many experts believe that the illustration depicts Beta infiltrating the ENIAC program.
1938: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann dies. He proved that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant.
1999: Writer, editor, and actor George Plimpton publishes his account of personally committing math crimes "for the participatory journalistic experience."
2016: Spiral 2 voted Picture of the day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.