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||1976: Geneve Lucy Angela Shaffer dies ... realtor, lecturer and author. In 1909 she was touted by the San Francisco Call as "the first woman in the world to sail in a flying machine". | ||1976: Geneve Lucy Angela Shaffer dies ... realtor, lecturer and author. In 1909 she was touted by the San Francisco Call as "the first woman in the world to sail in a flying machine". | ||
||1997: Alexander Oppenheim born ... mathematician. In mathematics, his most notable contribution is his Oppenheim conjecture. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Oppenheim.html | |||
||2004: David Wheeler dies ... computer scientist and academic. | ||2004: David Wheeler dies ... computer scientist and academic. | ||
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1516: Polymath Johannes Trithemius dies. He is remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.
1675: Mathematician and crime-fighter John Pell publishes new theory of equations with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1887: Mathematician George Pólya born. He will make fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.
2016: Signed first edition of Three Kings stolen from the New MIA in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Killer Poke gang.