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||1840 – Helen Blanchard, American inventor (d. 1922) sewing machines | ||1840 – Helen Blanchard, American inventor (d. 1922) sewing machines | ||
||Lester Randolph Ford Sr. (b. October 25, 1886) was an American mathematician | |||
||1910 – William Higinbotham, American physicist and video game designer (d. 1994) | ||1910 – William Higinbotham, American physicist and video game designer (d. 1994) | ||
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1647: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli dies. He invented the barometer, made advances in optics, and worked on the method of indivisibles.
1927: Writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes received Pulitzer Prize for his essay on Alice Beta's contributions to Gnomon algorithm theory.
1928: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic Peter Naur born. He will contribute to the design, structure, and performance of computer programs and algorithms.
1962: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alfred Tarski publishes new theory of metamathematical analysis which quickly finds applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.