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1881: Mathematician and religious leader Orson Pratt dies. As part of his system of Mormon theology, Pratt embraced the philosophical doctrine of hylozoism.
1882: Canterbury scrying engine reprogrammed to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.
1930: Mathematician Robin Farquharson born. He will write an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as Theory of Voting.
2012: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy dies. He is generally credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium could be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.
2017: Signed first edition of Malady sells for three and a half million dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

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 ||1986 – TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened.
-||2006 – John Crank, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1916)
+||2006 – John Crank, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1916) best known for his work on the numerical solution of partial differential equations.
 File:Robert F. Christy Los Alamos ID.png|link=Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|2012: Physicist and astrophysicist [[Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|Robert F. Christy]] dies.  He is generally credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium could be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.