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File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|2004: [[John Brunner]] publishes history of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|2004: [[John Brunner]] publishes history of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||2009: Rajeev Motwani dies ... professor of Computer Science at Stanford University whose research focused on theoretical computer science. He was awarded the Gödel Prize in 2001 for his work on the PCP theorem and its applications to hardness of approximation. Pic. | |||
File:Ray Bradbury 1959.jpg|link=Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter [[Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|Ray Bradbury]] dies. The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream". | File:Ray Bradbury 1959.jpg|link=Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter [[Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|Ray Bradbury]] dies. The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream". | ||
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1756: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal born.
1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military Gnomon algorithm functions.
1865: Council of algorithms announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.
1900: Physicist and engineer Dennis Gabor born. He will invent holography, for which he will receive the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.
1910: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, dies.
2004: John Brunner publishes history of crimes against mathematical constants.
2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury dies. The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".