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File:Claude Lévi-Strauss receiving Erasmus Prize (1973).jpg|link=Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|2009: Anthropologist and ethnologist [[Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|Claude Lévi-Strauss]] dies. His work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology. | File:Claude Lévi-Strauss receiving Erasmus Prize (1973).jpg|link=Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|2009: Anthropologist and ethnologist [[Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|Claude Lévi-Strauss]] dies. His work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology. | ||
||2011: Jonas Kubilius dies ... mathematician who worked in probability theory and number theory. Pic. | |||
||2012: After Hurricane Sandy came ashore in New Jersey on the 29th, the huge weather system was captured with an overlay to emphasize it's Fibonacci-like structure. *HT to Bob Mrotek for sending me this image. https://pballew.blogspot.com/2018/10/on-this-day-in-math-october-30.html | ||2012: After Hurricane Sandy came ashore in New Jersey on the 29th, the huge weather system was captured with an overlay to emphasize it's Fibonacci-like structure. *HT to Bob Mrotek for sending me this image. https://pballew.blogspot.com/2018/10/on-this-day-in-math-october-30.html | ||
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1626: Astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius dies. In 1615 he conducted a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.
1878: Electrical engineer and inventor Arthur Scherbius born. He will invent and patent the famous mechanical cipher Enigma machine.
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a machine gun attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1925: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
2008: Mathematician, social activist, and crime-fighter Irving Adler publishes evidence that high-level crimes against mathematical constants have been covered up by the government for decades.
2009: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss dies. His work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.
2016: Signed first edition of Blue Green Blossom used in high-energy literature experiment develops artificial intelligence, demands copyright autonomy.
2017: Steganographic analysis of the well-known illustration Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery reveals nearly two terabytes of encrypted data.