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||1943 – Colin Pillinger, English astronomer, chemist, and academic (d. 2014) | ||1943 – Colin Pillinger, English astronomer, chemist, and academic (d. 2014) | ||
||Hans Kammler (26 August 1901 – 9 May 1945) was a German civil engineer and SS commander during the Nazi era. He oversaw SS construction projects and towards the end of World War II was put in charge of the V-2 missile and jet programmes. Pic. | |||
|File:Project Diana antenna.jpg|link=Project Diana (nonfiction)|1948: The United States Army Signal Corps uses [[Project Diana (nonfiction)|Project Diana]] antenna to pre-visualize [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |File:Project Diana antenna.jpg|link=Project Diana (nonfiction)|1948: The United States Army Signal Corps uses [[Project Diana (nonfiction)|Project Diana]] antenna to pre-visualize [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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1746: Mathematician and engineer Gaspard Monge born. He will invent descriptive geometry, and do pioneering work in differential geometry.
1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new theory of sets derived from Gnomon algorithm functions. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants."
1941: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
2017: Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus causes widespread debate about the role of private citizens in fighting crimes against mathematical constants.