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||1983: Joseph Pierre (Joe) LaSalle dies ... mathematician specialising in dynamical systems and responsible for important contributions to stability theory, such as LaSalle's invariance principle which bears his name.
||1983: Joseph Pierre (Joe) LaSalle dies ... mathematician specialising in dynamical systems and responsible for important contributions to stability theory, such as LaSalle's invariance principle which bears his name.


||1983: Herman Kahn dies ... founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of the twentieth century. Herman Kahn (February 15, 1922 – July 7, 1983) was a founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of the twentieth century. He originally came to prominence as a military strategist and systems theorist while employed at the RAND Corporation. He became known for analyzing the likely consequences of nuclear war and recommending ways to improve survivability, making him one of three historical inspirations for the title character of Stanley Kubrick's classic black comedy film satire Dr. Strangelove.
||1983: Herman Kahn dies ... founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of the twentieth century ... founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of the twentieth century. He originally came to prominence as a military strategist and systems theorist while employed at the RAND Corporation. He became known for analyzing the likely consequences of nuclear war and recommending ways to improve survivability, making him one of three historical inspirations for the title character of Stanley Kubrick's classic black comedy film satire Dr. Strangelove.


||1984: Richard Ernest Bellman dies ... applied mathematician, who introduced dynamic programming in 1953, and important contributions in other fields of mathematics.
||1984: Richard E. Bellman dies ... applied mathematician, who introduced dynamic programming in 1953, and important contributions in other fields of mathematics. Pic.


||2003: NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.
||2003: NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.


||2017: Marina Evseevna Ratner dies ... professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who worked in ergodic theory. She proved a group of major theorems concerning unipotent flows on homogeneous spaces, known as Ratner's theorems.
||2017: Marina Ratner dies ... professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who worked in ergodic theory. She proved a group of major theorems concerning unipotent flows on homogeneous spaces, known as Ratner's theorems. Pic.


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