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||2014: Mara Neusel dies ... mathematician, author, and academic. | ||2014: Mara Neusel dies ... mathematician, author, and academic. | ||
File:Six Seconds to Hell.jpg|link=Six Seconds to Hell|2017: Art thieves steal ''[[Six Seconds to Hell]]'', demand million-dollar ransom. | |File:Six Seconds to Hell.jpg|link=Six Seconds to Hell|2017: Art thieves steal ''[[Six Seconds to Hell]]'', demand million-dollar ransom. | ||
||2017: Nicolaas "Nico" Bloembergen dies ... physicist and Nobel laureate, recognized for his work in developing driving principles behind nonlinear optics for laser spectroscopy. During his career, he was a professor at both Harvard University and later at the University of Arizona. Bloembergen shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur Schawlow, along with Kai Siegbahn for his laser spectroscopy work. | ||2017: Nicolaas "Nico" Bloembergen dies ... physicist and Nobel laureate, recognized for his work in developing driving principles behind nonlinear optics for laser spectroscopy. During his career, he was a professor at both Harvard University and later at the University of Arizona. Bloembergen shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur Schawlow, along with Kai Siegbahn for his laser spectroscopy work. | ||
File:Greedy algorithm 36 cents.svg|link=Greedy algorithm (nonfiction)|2018: New study of algorithmic paradigms finds that [[Greedy algorithm (nonfiction)|Greedy algorithms]] are studied more often than other algorithmic paradigms. | |||
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1575: Mathematician Federico Commandino born. He will gain fame for his central role as translator of works of ancient mathematicians.
1588: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to locate alleged supervillain Anarchimedes.
1677: Theologian, natural philosopher, and diplomat Henry Oldenburg dies. He was one of the foremost intelligencers of Europe of the seventeenth century, and the creator of scientific peer review.
1725: Mathematician and theorist Jean-Étienne Montucla born. His deep interest in history of mathematics will become apparent with his publication of Histoire des Mathématiques, the first part appearing in 1758.
1947: Advances in dynastic cellular automata theory reveal new members of Bernoulli family.
1948: Physicist and chemist Richard C. Tolman dies. He made important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity.
1948: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1977: Voyager 1 spacecraft launches. It will visit Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn's large moon Titan.
2018: New study of algorithmic paradigms finds that Greedy algorithms are studied more often than other algorithmic paradigms.