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||1932 – Gene H. Golub, American mathematician and academic - Gene Howard Golub (b. February 29, 1932), Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science (and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering) at Stanford University, was one of the preeminent numerical analysts of his generation. | ||1932 – Gene H. Golub, American mathematician and academic - Gene Howard Golub (b. February 29, 1932), Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science (and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering) at Stanford University, was one of the preeminent numerical analysts of his generation. | ||
||Giuseppe Vitali (d. 29 February 1932) was an Italian mathematician who worked in several branches of mathematical analysis. He gives his name to several entities in mathematics, most notably the Vitali set with which he was the first to give an example of a non-measurable subset of real numbers. Pic. | |||
|link=Ernest Lawrence (nonfiction)|1940: In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, because of the war, physicist [[Ernest Lawrence (nonfiction)|Ernest Lawrence]] receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco. | |link=Ernest Lawrence (nonfiction)|1940: In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, because of the war, physicist [[Ernest Lawrence (nonfiction)|Ernest Lawrence]] receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco. | ||
Revision as of 21:07, 2 April 2018
1522: Mathematician and cartographer Oronce Finé uses judicial astrology to predict the birth of Herman Hollerith.
1860: Inventor Herman Hollerith born. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing.
1964: Hellscreiber teleprinter system used to publish new biography of Herman Hollerith.