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File:John Crank.jpg|link=John Crank (nonfiction)|1963: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter [[John Crank (nonfiction)|John Crank]] uses the Crank–Nicolson method to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:John Crank.jpg|link=John Crank (nonfiction)|1963: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter [[John Crank (nonfiction)|John Crank]] uses the Crank–Nicolson method to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||Beniamino Segre (d. 2 October 1977) was an Italian mathematician who is remembered today as a major contributor to algebraic geometry and one of the founders of finite geometry. Pic.


||1996 – The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
||1996 – The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.


||Tosio Kato (加藤 敏夫 Katō Toshio, August 25, 1917 – October 2, 1999) was a Japanese mathematician who worked with partial differential equations, mathematical physics and functional analysis.
||Tosio Kato (d. October 2, 1999) was a Japanese mathematician who worked with partial differential equations, mathematical physics and functional analysis.


||2002 – Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-American physicist and philosopher (b. 1911)
||2002 – Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-American physicist and philosopher (b. 1911)

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  • 1588: Philosopher and scientist Bernardino Telesio dies. While his natural theories were later disproven, his emphasis on observation influenced the emergence of the scientific method.

    1588: Philosopher and scientist Bernardino Telesio dies. While his natural theories were later disproven, his emphasis on observation influenced the emergence of the scientific method.

  • 1589: Physician, archaeologist, and crime-fighter Michele Mercati publishes study of prehistoric stone tools, including evidence of prehistoric crimes against mathematical constants.

    1589: Physician, archaeologist, and crime-fighter Michele Mercati publishes study of prehistoric stone tools, including evidence of prehistoric crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1853: Mathematician and politician François Arago born. He observed that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect now known as eddy current.

    1853: Mathematician and politician François Arago born. He observed that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect now known as eddy current.

  • 1963: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter John Crank uses the Crank–Nicolson method to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1963: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter John Crank uses the Crank–Nicolson method to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 2006: Mathematician and academic Paul Halmos dies. He made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces).

    2006: Mathematician and academic Paul Halmos dies. He made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces).

  • 2007: Signed first edition of The Safe-Cracker provides clues which lead to the arrest and imprisonment of math criminals.

    2007: Signed first edition of The Safe-Cracker provides clues which lead to the arrest and imprisonment of math criminals.

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