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||2013: Alain Lascoux dies ... mathematician at the University of Marne la Vallée and Nankai University. His research was primarily in algebraic combinatorics, particularly Hecke algebras and Young tableaux. Pic: http://www.cnrs.fr/ins2i/spip.php?article611 | ||2013: Alain Lascoux dies ... mathematician at the University of Marne la Vallée and Nankai University. His research was primarily in algebraic combinatorics, particularly Hecke algebras and Young tableaux. Pic: http://www.cnrs.fr/ins2i/spip.php?article611 | ||
File:Creature_4.jpg|link=Creature 4 (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Creature 4 (nonfiction)|Creature 4]]'' stolen from the Louvre in daylight robbery by agents of the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang. | |||
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1631: Astronomer and mathematician Michael Maestlin dies. He was a mentor to Johannes Kepler, and played a sizable part in his adoption of the Copernican system.
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a artillery barrage in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1947: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of the cinema of the United States, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
1985: Physicist and crime-fighter William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor which detects and prevents crimes against mathematical constants.
1987: Mathematician and academic Andrey Kolmogorov dies. He made significant contributions to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity.
1981: Musician and alleged math criminal Skip Digits begins North American tour.
2018: Signed first edition of Creature 4 stolen from the Louvre in daylight robbery by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.