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1763: Mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1764: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey born. His government will see the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.
1877: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to compute new family of Gnomon algorithm functions.
2016: Philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist Hilary Putnam dies. He argued for the reality of mathematical entities, later espousing the view that mathematics is not purely logical, but "quasi-empirical".

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 ||1908 – Myrtle Bachelder, American chemist and Women's Army Corps officer (d. 1997) Manhattan Project
-File:Melvin Dresher.jpg|link=Melvin Dresher (nonfiction)|Mathematician [[Melvin Dresher (nonfiction)|Melvin Dresher]] (Dreszer) born. He will contribute to game theory, co-developing the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma.
 ||1916 – Jacque Fresco, American engineer and academic (d. 2017)