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||1998: Edwin Thompson Jaynes dies ... 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. Pic. | ||1998: Edwin Thompson Jaynes dies ... 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. Pic. | ||
||1998: Nizar Qabbani dies ... poet, publisher, and diplomat. His poetic style combines simplicity and elegance in exploring themes of love, eroticism, feminism, religion, and Arab nationalism. Qabbani is one of the most revered contemporary poets in the Arab world, and is considered to be Syria's National Poet. Pic. | |||
||2011: Ernesto Sabato dies ... physicist, author, and painter. Pic. | ||2011: Ernesto Sabato dies ... physicist, author, and painter. Pic. | ||
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1523: Mathematician and cartographer Oronce Finé uses Judicial astrology to detect and prevent crimes against astronomical 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 by John Havelock, performed at theaters across Europe to rave reviews.
1897: J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.
1905: Albert Einstein writes his thesis Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen ("A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions").
1913: Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein, and J. J. Thomson team up to defeat the combined forces of criminal mathematical functions Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus.
1916: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist Claude Shannon born. He will be known as "the father of information theory".
1916: Jazz drummer and theoretical crime-fighter Albert Einstein stops the Forbidden Ratio from kidnapping newborn infant Claude Shannon.
1964: Electronics researcher and Gnomon algorithm theorist Ralph Hartley uses the Hartley oscillator to detect and erase the Forbidden Ratio.
1973: Watergate: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that White House Counsel John Dean has been fired and that other top aides, most notably H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, have resigned.