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File:Akiva Yaglom.jpg|link=Akiva Yaglom (nonfiction)|2007: Physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist [[Akiva Yaglom (nonfiction)|Akiva Yaglom]] dies. He contributed to statistical turbulence theory and random process theory. | File:Akiva Yaglom.jpg|link=Akiva Yaglom (nonfiction)|2007: Physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist [[Akiva Yaglom (nonfiction)|Akiva Yaglom]] dies. He contributed to statistical turbulence theory and random process theory. | ||
|| | ||2012: The Chinese lunar probe Chang'e 2 departed from the Sun–Earth L2 point in April 2012[27] and made a flyby of Toutatis on 13 December 2012, with closest approach being 3.2 kilometers and a relative velocity of 10.73 km/s, when Toutatis was near its closest approach to Earth.[10][28][29] It took several pictures of the asteroid, revealing it to be a dusty red/orange color. Pic. | ||
File:Three Kings 3.jpg|link=Three Kings 3 (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Three Kings 3 (nonfiction)|Three Kings 3]]'' stolen from the New MIA in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] by agents of the [[Killer Poke]] gang. | File:Three Kings 3.jpg|link=Three Kings 3 (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Three Kings 3 (nonfiction)|Three Kings 3]]'' stolen from the New MIA in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] by agents of the [[Killer Poke]] gang. | ||
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1516: Polymath Johannes Trithemius dies. He is remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.
1675: Mathematician and crime-fighter John Pell publishes new theory of equations with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1887: Mathematician George Pólya born. He will make fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.
1907: Mathematician and adacemic Emmy Noether received her Ph.D. degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Erlangen, for a dissertation on algebraic invariants directed by Paul Gordan.
1973: Talk show host Peter Giblets broadcasts an episode of Peter Giblets Hour in New Minneapolis, Canada; his guests include Niles Cartouchian and Pierre Trudeau.
2007: Physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist Akiva Yaglom dies. He contributed to statistical turbulence theory and random process theory.
2016: Signed first edition of Three Kings 3 stolen from the New MIA in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Killer Poke gang.