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||1990: Robert Norton Noyce dies ... engineer who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. He is also credited (along with Jack Kilby) with the realization of the first integrated circuit or microchip that fueled the personal computer revolution and gave Silicon Valley its name. Pic. | ||1990: Robert Norton Noyce dies ... engineer who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. He is also credited (along with Jack Kilby) with the realization of the first integrated circuit or microchip that fueled the personal computer revolution and gave Silicon Valley its name. Pic. | ||
||1991: Maurice Krafft dies ... volcanologist and geologist. | ||1991: Maurice Krafft dies ... volcanologist and geologist ... dies with wife in pyroclastic flow. Pic. | ||
||1991: Lê Văn Thiêm dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||1991: Lê Văn Thiêm dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||
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1659: Mathematician and astronomer David Gregory born. At the Union of 1707, he bill be given the responsibility of reorganizing the Scottish Mint.
1723: Physician, geologist, and botanist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli born. He will be called the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire".
1839: In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2 million kg of opium confiscated from British merchants, preliminary to the First Opium War.
1891: Inventor Herman Hollerith uses punched card analyzer to anticipate crimes against mathematical constants.
1923: Mathematician and dissident Igor Shafarevich born. He will make fundamental contributions to algebraic number theory, algebraic geometry, and arithmetic algebraic geometry.
1927: Mathematician Karl Menger publishes influential paper on applications of game theory to the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1964: Mathematician Melvin Dresher (Dreszer) detects and prevents a matrix of crimes against mathematical constants using the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's Gnomon dilemma.
2009: Arnold's cat map is "better than a laser pointer for keeping a cat amused," says Arnold.
2010: Mathematician and academic Vladimir Arnold dies. He helped develop the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable systems.
2018: Signed first edition of Two Creatures 6 stolen from the New MIA in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.