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||1933: Marvin Isadore Knopp born ... mathematician who worked primarily in number theory. He made notable contributions to the theory of modular forms. Pic: https://news.temple.edu/news/2012-11-13/mathematics-conference-honors-late-temple-professor-marvin-knopp
||1933: Marvin Isadore Knopp born ... mathematician who worked primarily in number theory. He made notable contributions to the theory of modular forms. Pic: https://news.temple.edu/news/2012-11-13/mathematics-conference-honors-late-temple-professor-marvin-knopp
File:Dmitry_Mirimanoff.jpg|link=Dmitry Mirimanoff (nonfiction)|1934: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Dmitry Mirimanoff (nonfiction)|Dmitry Mirimanoff]] publishes new type of [[Gnomon algorithm function]] which uses non-well-founded set theory to predict that [[Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|Sputnik 1]] will fall to Earth "no later than January 1958."


File:Sputnik 1.jpg|link=Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|1958: [[Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|Sputnik 1]] falls to Earth from orbit.
File:Sputnik 1.jpg|link=Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|1958: [[Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|Sputnik 1]] falls to Earth from orbit.

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