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|File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2016: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]]. | |File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2016: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]]. | ||
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1817: Astronomer Charles Messier dies. He published an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that came to be known as the 110 "Messier objects".
1852: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand von Lindemann born. He will prove (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number.
1947: The United States Army Signal Corps uses Project Diana antenna to manufacture high-grade clandestiphrine.
1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight (Vostok 1).
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola wins Pulitzer Prize for series of retro-temporal photographs of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.