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||2004 – David Wheeler, English computer scientist and academic (b. 1927) | ||2004 – David Wheeler, English computer scientist and academic (b. 1927) | ||
||Akiva Moiseevich Yaglom (d. 13 December 2007) was a Soviet and Jewish physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist. He was known for his contributions to the statistical theory of turbulence and theory of random processes. Pic. | |||
||File:Ridley-Scott-researching-Alien.jpg|link=Ridley Scott|2012: Documentary film-maker [[Ridley Scott]] meets his Kickstarter goal for new film named ''[[Alien (film) (nonfiction)|Alien]]''. | ||File:Ridley-Scott-researching-Alien.jpg|link=Ridley Scott|2012: Documentary film-maker [[Ridley Scott]] meets his Kickstarter goal for new film named ''[[Alien (film) (nonfiction)|Alien]]''. | ||
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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.