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||2014: María Josefa Wonenburger Planells dies ... mathematician who did research in the United States and Canada. She is known for her work on group theory. Pic. | ||2014: María Josefa Wonenburger Planells dies ... mathematician who did research in the United States and Canada. She is known for her work on group theory. Pic. | ||
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1791: Polymath Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables".
1903: Mathematician and logician Alonzo Church born. He will make major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science.
1946: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird dies. He was one of the inventors of the mechanical television.
1986: Short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator Jorge Luis Borges dies. His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion.
1995: Writer Roger Zelazny dies. He won the Nebula award three times, and the Hugo award six times.
1995:The Custodian offers supernatural crime fighter job to deceased writer Roger Zelazny.
2022: Self portrait.