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||1889: Sewall Wright born ... geneticist and biologist. | ||1889: Sewall Wright born ... geneticist and biologist. | ||
||1889: Sewall Green Wright born ... geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his work on path analysis. | ||1889: Sewall Green Wright born ... geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his work on path analysis. Pic | ||
||1890: Hermann Joseph Muller born ... geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1890: Hermann Joseph Muller born ... geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
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1807: Mathematician Joseph Fourier announced to the French Academy of Science that an arbitrary function could be expanded as an infinite series of sines and cosines (now known as the Fourier series).
1878: Mathematician and philosopher Jan Łukasiewicz born. He will think innovatively about traditional propositional logic, the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle.
1913: Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.
1974: Fantasy Voronoi diagram upstages Fantasy Football.
1976: Chronography of 354 wins Pulitzer Prize.
1984: Mandelbrot set develops artificial intelligence, discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
2016: Signed first edition of Traveller used in high-energy literature experiments develops artificial intelligence.