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||1919 – Woldemar Voigt, German physicist and academic (b. 1850) | ||1919 – Woldemar Voigt, German physicist and academic (b. 1850) | ||
||David Gale (b. December 13, 1921) was an American mathematician and economist. He was a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, affiliated with the departments of mathematics, economics, and industrial engineering and operations research. He has contributed to the fields of mathematical economics, game theory, and convex analysis. | |||
||1923 – Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate | ||1923 – Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate | ||
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1516: Polymath Johannes Trithemius dies. He is remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.
1675: Mathematician and crime-fighter John Pell publishes new theory of equations with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1887: Mathematician George Pólya born. He will make fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.