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||1910 – William Higinbotham, American physicist and video game designer (d. 1994) | ||1910 – William Higinbotham, American physicist and video game designer (d. 1994) | ||
||1910: Mathematician and logician Gholam Hossein Mosaheb born. Pic. Birth/death dates confusion, see: http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/mosaheb-gholam-hosayn | |||
||Ivan Morton Niven (b. October 25, 1915) was a Canadian-American mathematician, specializing in number theory. Pic. | ||Ivan Morton Niven (b. October 25, 1915) was a Canadian-American mathematician, specializing in number theory. Pic. | ||
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1647: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli dies. He invented the barometer, made advances in optics, and worked on the method of indivisibles.
1927: Writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes received Pulitzer Prize for his essay on Alice Beta's contributions to Gnomon algorithm theory.
1928: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic Peter Naur born. He will contribute to the design, structure, and performance of computer programs and algorithms.
1962: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alfred Tarski publishes new theory of metamathematical analysis which quickly finds applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.