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File:Haskell Brooks Curry.jpg|link=Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and academic [[Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|Haskell Curry]] born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic. | File:Haskell Brooks Curry.jpg|link=Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and academic [[Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|Haskell Curry]] born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic. | ||
||Ernesto Cesàro ( 12 September 1906) was an Italian mathematician who worked in the field of differential geometry. This is his most important contribution, which he described in Lezione di geometria intrinseca (Naples, 1890). This work contains descriptions of curves which today are eponymously named after him. pic | |||
||Désiré André (d. September 12, 1917) was a French mathematician, best known for his work on Catalan numbers and alternating permutations. | ||Désiré André (d. September 12, 1917) was a French mathematician, best known for his work on Catalan numbers and alternating permutations. | ||
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1900: Mathematician and academic Haskell Curry born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic.
1932: American physicist and crime-fighter Arthur Compton publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions, based on the Compton effect, use the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1933: Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
2017: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden wins Pulitzer Prize.