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||George Bernard Dantzig (b. November 8, 1914) was an American mathematical scientist who made important contributions to operations research, computer science, economics, and statistics. Dantzig is known for his development of the simplex algorithm,[1] an algorithm for solving linear programming problems. Pic. | ||George Bernard Dantzig (b. November 8, 1914) was an American mathematical scientist who made important contributions to operations research, computer science, economics, and statistics. Dantzig is known for his development of the simplex algorithm,[1] an algorithm for solving linear programming problems. Pic. | ||
||1918 | ||1918: Hermann Zapf born ... typographer and calligrapher (d. 2015) | ||
||Leopold Karl Schmetterer | ||1919: Leopold Karl Schmetterer born ... was an Austrian mathematician working on analysis, probability, and statistics. Pic. | ||
||1922 | ||1922: Thea D. Hodge born ... computer scientist and academic (d. 2008) | ||
||1923 | ||1923: Jack Kilby born ... physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005) Jack St. Clair Kilby (November 8, 1923 – June 20, 2005) was an American electrical engineer who took part (along with Robert Noyce) in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1958. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on December 10, 2000 | ||
||1924 | ||1924: Robert V. Hogg born ... statistician and academic. Pic: https://clas.uiowa.edu/news/clas-mourns-passing-professor-emeritus-robert-v-hogg-pioneering-statistician-teacher-mentor-and | ||
||James Mark Baldwin | ||1934: James Mark Baldwin dies ... philosopher and psychologist who was educated at Princeton under the supervision of Scottish philosopher James McCosh and who was one of the founders of the Department of Psychology at the university. He made important contributions to early psychology, psychiatry, and to the theory of evolution. Pic. | ||
||1934 | ||1934: Carlos Chagas dies ... physician and bacteriologist. | ||
|File:Joseph_Schillinger_and_the_Rhythmicon.jpg|link=Drum machine (nonfiction)|1937: Music educator Joseph Schillinger inspects [[Drum machine (nonfiction)|Rhythmicon]], finds no evidence of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |File:Joseph_Schillinger_and_the_Rhythmicon.jpg|link=Drum machine (nonfiction)|1937: Music educator Joseph Schillinger inspects [[Drum machine (nonfiction)|Rhythmicon]], finds no evidence of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1939 | ||1939: Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans. | ||
||1939 | ||1939: In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch. | ||
||1950 | ||1950: Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history. | ||
||1957 – Operation Grapple X, Round C1: The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific. | ||1957 – Operation Grapple X, Round C1: The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific. | ||
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1703: Mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis dies. He served as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
1807: Engineer, hydrographer, and politician Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait dies. He designed and oversaw the building of ships, making structural improvements and developing techniques to improve the disposition of cargo in ships' holds.
1839: Birth of Ivan Goremykin heralds new age of Extreme Moustaches.
1848: Mathematician, logician, and philosopher Gottlob Frege born. Though will be largely ignored during his lifetime, his work will influence later generations of logicians and philosophers.
1895: While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
1969: Astronomer Vesto Melvin Slipher dies. He performed the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe.
1974: Green Ring tells Dick Cavett a funny story about Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography.