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||1923: Carl Djerassi born ... chemist, author, and playwright.
||1923: Carl Djerassi born ... chemist, author, and playwright.


||1925: Klaus Roth born .. mathematician ... known for work on diophantine approximation, the large sieve, and irregularities of distribution.
||1925: Klaus Roth born .. mathematician ... known for work on diophantine approximation, the large sieve, and irregularities of distribution. Pic.


||1933: Paul Painlevé dies ... mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France.
||1933: Paul Painlevé dies ... mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France.


||1943: Heinrich Biltz dies ... chemist and academic. Pic.
||1943: Heinrich Biltz dies ... chemist and academic. Pic.
||1959: Edith Clarke dies ... electrical engineer. She specialized in electrical power system analysis and wrote ''Circuit Analysis of A-C Power Systems''. Pic.


File:Claude Lévi-Strauss receiving Erasmus Prize (1973).jpg|link=Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|1964: Anthropologist, ethnologist, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] philosopher [[Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|Claude Lévi-Strauss]] is awarded the Anthropologist of the Year prize by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
File:Claude Lévi-Strauss receiving Erasmus Prize (1973).jpg|link=Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|1964: Anthropologist, ethnologist, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] philosopher [[Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|Claude Lévi-Strauss]] is awarded the Anthropologist of the Year prize by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].

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  • 1675: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.

    1675: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.

  • 1732: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi is granted professorship in philosophy by the University of Bologna, thus also making her a member of the Academy of the Sciences.

    1732: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi is granted professorship in philosophy by the University of Bologna, thus also making her a member of the Academy of the Sciences.

  • 1783: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Jean le Rond d'Alembert dies. He made contributions to mathematics and physics, including D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation.

    1783: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Jean le Rond d'Alembert dies. He made contributions to mathematics and physics, including D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation.

  • 1964: Anthropologist, ethnologist, and Gnomon algorithm philosopher Claude Lévi-Strauss is awarded the Anthropologist of the Year prize by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    1964: Anthropologist, ethnologist, and Gnomon algorithm philosopher Claude Lévi-Strauss is awarded the Anthropologist of the Year prize by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

  • 1965 Oct. 29: Long Shot nuclear weapons test at Amchitka, Alaska. It was the largest underground explosion ever detonated by the United States.

    1965 Oct. 29: Long Shot nuclear weapons test at Amchitka, Alaska. It was the largest underground explosion ever detonated by the United States.

  • 2016: Steganographic analysis of Swamp Thing unexpectedly reveals "at least five hundred, perhaps six hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.

    2016: Steganographic analysis of Swamp Thing unexpectedly reveals "at least five hundred, perhaps six hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.

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