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||2013 – Tom Parry Jones, Welsh chemist, invented the breathalyzer (b. 1935) | ||2013 – Tom Parry Jones, Welsh chemist, invented the breathalyzer (b. 1935) | ||
||Zoltán Pál Dienes (anglicized as Zoltan Paul Dienes) (d. January 11, 2014) was a Hungarian mathematician whose ideas on education (especially of small children) have been popular in some countries.[1] He was a world-famous theorist and tireless practitioner of the "new mathematics": an approach to mathematics learning that uses games, songs, and dance to make it more appealing to children. | |||
||2015 – Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle, American neuroscientist and academic (b. 1918) | ||2015 – Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle, American neuroscientist and academic (b. 1918) | ||
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1502: Mathematician, cosmographer, and academic Pedro Nunes born. He will be one of the greatest mathematicians of his time, known for his mathematical approach to navigation and cartography.
1569: First recorded lottery in England.
1570: Didacus automaton uses Gnomon algorithm to predict winning lottery numbers.
1638: Scientist and bishop Niels Steensen born. He will question explanations for tear production, the idea that fossils grow in the ground.
1711: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão collaborates with Didacus automaton on design of new airship.
1757: engineer and naval architect Samuel Bentham born. He will design the first Panopticon.
1934: Computer scientist Tony Hoare born. He will go on to invent the quicksort algorithm, and make other contributions to computer science.
2017: New class of crimes against mathematical constants targets vulnerable quicksort routines.