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||1946: David Gibb dies ... mathematician and astronomer. He was the first person to use the term numerical integration. No pic online. | ||1946: David Gibb dies ... mathematician and astronomer. He was the first person to use the term numerical integration. No pic online. | ||
||1946: Wubbo Ockels born ... physicist and astronaut. | ||1946: Wubbo Ockels born ... physicist and astronaut. Pic. | ||
||1946: Cold War: The United States Department of State releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power. | ||1946: Cold War: The United States Department of State releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power. | ||
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1794: Philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet dies. His ideas and writings were said to embody the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment and rationalism, and remain influential to this day.
1849: Physicist and priest Francesco Zantedeschi discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which uses the magnetic action on steel needles by ultraviolet light to detect and prevent crimes against light.
1926: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1928: Mathematician and theorist Alexander Grothendieck born. He will become the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry.
1943: Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition) nominated for Nobel Anti-Peace Prize.
2013: Statistician and educator George E. P. Box dies. He has been called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".
2018: Signed first edition of Electrical Storm stolen from the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.