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||1917 – Atle Selberg, Norwegian-American mathematician and academic (d. 2007) | ||1917 – Atle Selberg, Norwegian-American mathematician and academic (d. 2007) Atle Selberg (14 June 1917 – 6 August 2007) was a Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory, and in the theory of automorphic forms, in particular bringing them into relation with spectral theory. | ||
||1924 – James Black, Scottish pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010) | ||1924 – James Black, Scottish pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010) | ||
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1903: Mathematician and logician Alonzo Church born. He will make major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science.
1946: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird dies. He was one of the inventors of the mechanical television.
1966: Mathematician Edward Lorenz uses scrying engine to reveal previously unknown crimes against mathematical constants.
1986: Short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator Jorge Luis Borges dies. His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion.
1994: Physicist and crime-fighter John Vincent Atanasoff uses the Atanasoff-Berry computer to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1995: Writer Roger Zelazny dies. He won the Nebula award three times, and the Hugo award six times.
1995:The Custodian offers supernatural crime fighter job to deceased writer Roger Zelazny.