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||1912: Kathleen Ollerenshaw born ... mathematician, astronomer, and politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester. She contributed to the study of most-perfect pandiagonal magic squares.
||1912: Kathleen Ollerenshaw born ... mathematician, astronomer, and politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester. She contributed to the study of most-perfect pandiagonal magic squares.
||1919: Philip Edward Bertrand Jourdain dies ... logician.  He took a close interest in the paradoxes related to Russell's paradox, formulating the card paradox version of the liar paradox. Near the end of his life he became increasingly obsessed by trying to prove the axiom of choice, and published several incorrect proofs of it. Littlewood (1986, p.129) describes Jourdain on his deathbed still arguing with him about his (incorrect) proof of the axiom of choice. Pic: http://www.learn-math.info/mathematicians/historyDetail.htm?id=Jourdain


||1921: Roger Godement born ... mathematician, known for his work in functional analysis as well as his expository books.
||1921: Roger Godement born ... mathematician, known for his work in functional analysis as well as his expository books.

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  • 1499: Priest, humanist philosopher, and astrologer Marsilio Ficino dies. His Florentine Academy, an attempt to revive Plato's Academy, influenced the direction and tenor of the Italian Renaissance and the development of European philosophy.

    1499: Priest, humanist philosopher, and astrologer Marsilio Ficino dies. His Florentine Academy, an attempt to revive Plato's Academy, influenced the direction and tenor of the Italian Renaissance and the development of European philosophy.

  • 1880: First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.

    1880: First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.

  • 1881: Mathematicians Nikola Tesla and Judge Havelock use new class of data transmission protocols to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1881: Mathematicians Nikola Tesla and Judge Havelock use new class of data transmission protocols to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1940: Mathematician Chiungtze C. Tsen dies. He proved Tsen's theorem, which states that a function field K of an algebraic curve over an algebraically closed field is quasi-algebraically closed (i.e., C1).

    1940: Mathematician Chiungtze C. Tsen dies. He proved Tsen's theorem, which states that a function field K of an algebraic curve over an algebraically closed field is quasi-algebraically closed (i.e., C1).

  • 1947: Game designer Dave Arneson born. He will co-create the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons with Gary Gygax.

    1947: Game designer Dave Arneson born. He will co-create the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons with Gary Gygax.

  • 1993: Physician, mathematician, and alleged time-traveller Asclepius Myrmidon publishes On Halting Problems, about the computational and medical problem of determining, from a description of an arbitrary computer program and an input, whether the program will finish running or continue to run forever.

    1993: Physician, mathematician, and alleged time-traveller Asclepius Myrmidon publishes On Halting Problems, about the computational and medical problem of determining, from a description of an arbitrary computer program and an input, whether the program will finish running or continue to run forever.

  • 1994: Mathematician and philosopher Paul Lorenzen dies. He was the founder of the Erlangen School (with Wilhelm Kamlah) and inventor of game semantics (with Kuno Lorenz).

    1994: Mathematician and philosopher Paul Lorenzen dies. He was the founder of the Erlangen School (with Wilhelm Kamlah) and inventor of game semantics (with Kuno Lorenz).

  • 2018: Signed first edition of Green Tangle stolen from the Weisman Art Museum in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.

    2018: Signed first edition of Green Tangle stolen from the Weisman Art Museum in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.

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