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||1914 – James Gilbert Baker, American astronomer, optician, and academic (d. 2005) | ||1914 – James Gilbert Baker, American astronomer, optician, and academic (d. 2005) | ||
||Roberto Mario "Robert" Fano (b. 11 November 1917) was an Italian-American computer scientist and academic. He was known principally for his work on information theory, inventing (with Claude Shannon) Shannon–Fano coding and deriving the Fano inequality. He also invented the Fano algorithm and postulated the Fano metric. Pic. | |||
||1926 – The United States Numbered Highway System is established. | ||1926 – The United States Numbered Highway System is established. |
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1675: Mathematician Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
1875: Astronomer Vesto Melvin Slipher born. He will perform the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe.
1904: Mathematician and academic J. H. C. Whitehead born. During the Second World War, he will work with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.
1930: Physicist Hugh Everett III born. He will propose the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics.
1933: Cantor Parabola warns that crimes against mathematical constants are on the rise.
2005: The Venus Express successfully performs its first trajectory correction maneuver.