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File:Jan Łukasiewicz.jpg|link=Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|1878: Mathematician and philosopher [[Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|Jan Łukasiewicz]] born. He will think innovatively about traditional propositional logic, the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle. | File:Jan Łukasiewicz.jpg|link=Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|1878: Mathematician and philosopher [[Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|Jan Łukasiewicz]] born. He will think innovatively about traditional propositional logic, the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle. | ||
||1889: Sewall Wright born ... geneticist and biologist. | ||1889: Sewall Wright born ... geneticist and biologist. Pic. | ||
||1889: Sewall Green Wright born ... geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his work on path analysis. Pic | ||1889: Sewall Green Wright born ... geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his work on path analysis. Pic | ||
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||1951: Timothy May born ... technical and political writer, and was an electronic engineer and senior scientist at Intel in the company's early history. Pic: https://en.m.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/File:Tim_may.jpg#mw-jump-to-license | ||1951: Timothy May born ... technical and political writer, and was an electronic engineer and senior scientist at Intel in the company's early history. Pic: https://en.m.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/File:Tim_may.jpg#mw-jump-to-license | ||
||1959: Rosanjin dies ... calligrapher, engraver, and | ||1959: Kitaōji Rosanjin dies ... pseudonym for a noted artist and epicure during the early to mid-Shōwa period of Japan. His real name was Kitaōji Fusajirō (北大路 房次郎), but he is best known by his artistic name, Rosanjin. A man of many talents, Rosanjin was also a calligrapher, ceramicist, engraver, painter, lacquer artist and restaurateur. Pic. | ||
||1960: Eric Temple Bell dies ... mathematician and science fiction writer who lived in the United States for most of his life. He published non-fiction using his given name and fiction as John Taine. Pic. | ||1960: Eric Temple Bell dies ... mathematician and science fiction writer who lived in the United States for most of his life. He published non-fiction using his given name and fiction as John Taine. Pic. | ||
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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.