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||Géza Fodor dies ... mathematician, working in set theory. He proved Fodor's lemma on stationary sets, one of the most important, and most used results in set theory. Pic. | ||Géza Fodor dies ... mathematician, working in set theory. He proved Fodor's lemma on stationary sets, one of the most important, and most used results in set theory. Pic. | ||
||1979: John Herbert Chapman dies ... physicist and engineer. | ||1979: John Herbert Chapman dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=john+herbert+chapman | ||
||1991: SAC stands down from alert all ICBMs scheduled for deactivation under START I, as well as its strategic bomber force. | ||1991: SAC stands down from alert all ICBMs scheduled for deactivation under START I, as well as its strategic bomber force. | ||
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||2004: Jacobus Hendricus ("Jack") van Lint dies ... mathematician and academic. His field of research was initially number theory, but he worked mainly in combinatorics and coding theory. Pic. | ||2004: Jacobus Hendricus ("Jack") van Lint dies ... mathematician and academic. His field of research was initially number theory, but he worked mainly in combinatorics and coding theory. Pic. | ||
||2004: Luigi Amerio dies ... electrical engineer and mathematician. He is known for his work on almost periodic functions, on Laplace transforms in one and several dimensions, and on the theory of elliptic partial differential equations. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=luigi+amerio | |||
||2008: Anatoly Alexeevitch Karatsuba dies ... mathematician working in the field of analytic number theory, p-adic numbers and Dirichlet series. The Karatsuba algorithm is the earliest known divide and conquer algorithm for multiplication and lives on as a special case of its direct generalization, the Toom–Cook algorithm. Pic. | ||2008: Anatoly Alexeevitch Karatsuba dies ... mathematician working in the field of analytic number theory, p-adic numbers and Dirichlet series. The Karatsuba algorithm is the earliest known divide and conquer algorithm for multiplication and lives on as a special case of its direct generalization, the Toom–Cook algorithm. Pic. | ||
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1494: Doctor, astronomer, and crime-fighter Johannes Engel publishes an almanac which uses Gnomon algorithm functions to predict crimes against astronomical constants with unprecedented accuracy.
1605: Mathematician and astronomer Ismaël Bullialdus born. He will be an active member of the Republic of Letters, and an early defender of the ideas of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo.
1890 (or 1892): Electrical engineer Florence Violet McKenzie born. She will be was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women.
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1925: Physicist and mathematician Martin David Kruskal born. He will make fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, including the discovery and theory of solitons.
1953: Astronomer and cosmologist Edwin Hubble dies. He discovered the fact that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way.
2016: Blue Green Blossom voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.