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1737: Physician and physicist Luigi Galvani born. In 1780, he will discover that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitch when struck by an electrical spark.
1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new theory of sets derived from Gnomon algorithm functions. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants."
1947: First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
2017: The Custodian tells a funny story about why you can't go in there.

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 |File:Exponential-growth-diagram.svg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1942: "Conspiracy theories of about [[crimes against mathematical constants]] have yet to prove their case."
-||1947 – First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
+File:First computer bug.jpg|link=Software defect (nonfiction)|1947: First case of a [[Software defect (nonfiction)|computer bug]] being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
-File:George_Pólya_circa_1973.jpg|link=George Pólya (nonfiction)|1984: Mathematician [[George Pólya (nonfiction)|George Pólya]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], based on combinatorics and probability theory, which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
+|File:George_Pólya_circa_1973.jpg|link=George Pólya (nonfiction)|1984: Mathematician [[George Pólya (nonfiction)|George Pólya]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], based on combinatorics and probability theory, which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 ||1985 – Paul Flory, American chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)