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||1998: Martin Rodbell dies ... biochemist and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925) | ||1998: Martin Rodbell dies ... biochemist and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925) | ||
||2009: Ray Solomonoff dies ... inventor of algorithmic probability, his General Theory of Inductive Inference (also known as Universal Inductive Inference), and was a founder of algorithmic information theory. He was an originator of the branch of artificial intelligence based on machine learning, prediction and probability. Pic: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267090779_Ray_Solomonoff_and_the_New_Probability | |||
||2015: The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt. | ||2015: The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt. | ||
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903: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi born. He will publish his Book of Fixed Stars in 964.
1823: Mathematician Leopold Kronecker born. His work will include number theory, algebra, and logic.
1929: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Hermann Weyl uses fermions (now known as Weyl semimetals) to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1963: Instant replay makes its debut during the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
1979: Astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin dies. Her doctoral thesis established that hydrogen is the overwhelming constituent of stars, and accordingly the most abundant element in the universe.
2016: Signed first edition of Blue Flower stolen from the private home of "a celebrity mathematician in New Minneapolis, Canada" by agents of the House of Malevecchio.