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||1903 – Lars Onsager, Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976) | ||1903 – Lars Onsager, Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976) | ||
||Paul Tannery (20 December 1843 – 27 November 1904) was a French mathematician and historian of mathematics. He was the older brother of mathematician Jules Tannery, to whose Notions Mathématiques he contributed an historical chapter. Though Tannery's career was in the tobacco industry, he devoted his evenings and his life to the study of mathematicians and mathematical development. | |||
||1909 – Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1967) | ||1909 – Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1967) | ||
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1754: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre dies. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, is prized by gamblers.
1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London.
1852: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace dies. She did pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
