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1581: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke develops new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on tangents and secants.
1767: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi uses scrying engine to pre-visualize the dwarf planet Ceres.
1929: Mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang dies. He invented the fields of traffic engineering, queueing theory, and telephone networks analysis.
2016: Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting."

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 File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1767: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] uses [[scrying engine]] to pre-visualize the dwarf planet Ceres.
 File:Agner Krarup Erlang.jpg|link=Agner Krarup Erlang (nonfiction)|1929: Mathematician and engineer [[Agner Krarup Erlang (nonfiction)|Agner Krarup Erlang]] dies. He invented the fields of traffic engineering, queueing theory, and telephone networks analysis.
-File:Lex Luthor Action Comics 23.png|link=Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|1954: [[Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|Lex Luthor]] planning new autobiographical film, asks [[Linus Pauling (nonfiction)|Linus Pauling]] to play the title role.
-File:Linus Pauling.jpg|link=Linus Pauling (nonfiction)|1954: [[Linus Pauling (nonfiction)|Linus Pauling]] says he is "flattered, but cannot possibly accept" offer to play [[Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|Lex Luthor]] in planned film.
 File:Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens|2016: ''[[Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens]]'' hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting."
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