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File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|2007: Signed first edition of ''The Safe-Cracker'' provides clues which lead to the arrest and imprisonment of [[math criminals]].
File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|2007: Signed first edition of ''The Safe-Cracker'' provides clues which lead to the arrest and imprisonment of [[math criminals]].
||Shaun Wylie (d. 2 October 2009) was a British mathematician and World War II codebreaker.


||2013 – Abraham Nemeth, American mathematician and academic (b. 1918)
||2013 – Abraham Nemeth, American mathematician and academic (b. 1918)

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  • 1588: Philosopher and scientist Bernardino Telesio dies. While his natural theories were later disproven, his emphasis on observation influenced the emergence of the scientific method.

    1588: Philosopher and scientist Bernardino Telesio dies. While his natural theories were later disproven, his emphasis on observation influenced the emergence of the scientific method.

  • 1589: Physician, archaeologist, and crime-fighter Michele Mercati publishes study of prehistoric stone tools, including evidence of prehistoric crimes against mathematical constants.

    1589: Physician, archaeologist, and crime-fighter Michele Mercati publishes study of prehistoric stone tools, including evidence of prehistoric crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 2006: Mathematician and academic Paul Halmos dies. He made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces).

    2006: Mathematician and academic Paul Halmos dies. He made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces).

  • 2007: Signed first edition of The Safe-Cracker provides clues which lead to the arrest and imprisonment of math criminals.

    2007: Signed first edition of The Safe-Cracker provides clues which lead to the arrest and imprisonment of math criminals.

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