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||Zoltán Pál Dienes (anglicized as Zoltan Paul Dienes) (b.June 21, 1916) was a Hungarian mathematician whose ideas on education (especially of small children) have been popular in some countries. He was a world-famous theorist and tireless practitioner of the "new mathematics": an approach to mathematics learning that uses games, songs, and dance to make it more appealing to children. | ||Zoltán Pál Dienes (anglicized as Zoltan Paul Dienes) (b.June 21, 1916) was a Hungarian mathematician whose ideas on education (especially of small children) have been popular in some countries. He was a world-famous theorist and tireless practitioner of the "new mathematics": an approach to mathematics learning that uses games, songs, and dance to make it more appealing to children. | ||
|| | ||Ferdinand Rudio (d. 21 June 1929) was a German and Swiss mathematician and historian of mathematics. Pic. | ||
||Wolfgang Doeblin (d. 21 June 1940) was a French-German mathematician. Pic. | ||Wolfgang Doeblin (d. 21 June 1940) was a French-German mathematician. Pic. | ||
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||1973 – In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller test for obscenity in U.S. law. | ||1973 – In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller test for obscenity in U.S. law. | ||
||Hendrik Wade Bode (d. June 21, 1982) was an American engineer, researcher, inventor, author and scientist, of Dutch ancestry. As a pioneer of modern control theory and electronic telecommunications he revolutionized both the content and methodology of his chosen fields of research. Pic. | |||
||1987 – Madman Muntz, American engineer and businessman, founded the Muntz Car Company (b. 1914) | ||1987 – Madman Muntz, American engineer and businessman, founded the Muntz Car Company (b. 1914) | ||
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1652: Architect Inigo Jones dies. He was one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.
1781: Mathematician and physicist Siméon Denis Poisson born. His memoirs on the theory of electricity and magnetism will constitute a new branch of mathematical physics.
1947: Lorenz system diagram develops self-awareness, invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1948: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson dies.
1952: Crime-fighter The Governess chastises corrupt accounting firm, compels accountants to return money embezzled from orphan's fund and personally apologize to orphans.
