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File:Hilary Putnam.jpg|link=Hilary Putnam (nonfiction)|2016: Philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist [[Hilary Putnam (nonfiction)|Hilary Putnam]] dies. He argued for the reality of mathematical entities, later espousing the view that mathematics is not purely logical, but "quasi-empirical". | File:Hilary Putnam.jpg|link=Hilary Putnam (nonfiction)|2016: Philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist [[Hilary Putnam (nonfiction)|Hilary Putnam]] dies. He argued for the reality of mathematical entities, later espousing the view that mathematics is not purely logical, but "quasi-empirical". | ||
||2017: André Jagendorf botanist and academic dies ... notable for providing direct evidence that chloroplasts synthesize adenosine triphosphate (ATP) using the chemiosmotic mechanism proposed by Peter Mitchell. Pic. | |||
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1764: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey born. His government will see the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.
1877: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to compute new family of Gnomon algorithm functions.
Mathematician Melvin Dresher (Dreszer) born. He will contribute to game theory, co-developing the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma.
2015: Steganographic analysis of Nikola Tesla illustration unexpectedly reveals "at least a terabyte" of encrypted data, "almost certainly Tesla's case files on crimes against physical constants."
2016: Philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist Hilary Putnam dies. He argued for the reality of mathematical entities, later espousing the view that mathematics is not purely logical, but "quasi-empirical".