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||1918: Jay Wright Forrester born ... computer engineer and systems scientist. He was a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Forrester is known as the founder of system dynamics, which deals with the simulation of interactions between objects in dynamic systems. Pic. | ||1918: Jay Wright Forrester born ... computer engineer and systems scientist. He was a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Forrester is known as the founder of system dynamics, which deals with the simulation of interactions between objects in dynamic systems. Pic. | ||
||1921: Geoffrey Wilkinson | ||1921: Geoffrey Wilkinson born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... who pioneered inorganic chemistry and homogeneous transition metal catalysis. Pic. | ||
||1933: Stephen Schanuel born ... mathematician working in the fields of abstract algebra and category theory, number theory, and measure theory. He stated a conjecture in the field of transcendental number theory, which remains an important open problem to this day. Schanuel was a professor emeritus of mathematics at University at Buffalo. Pic: http://rfcwalters.blogspot.com/2014/11/stephen-h-schanuel-and-dietmar.html | ||1933: Stephen Schanuel born ... mathematician working in the fields of abstract algebra and category theory, number theory, and measure theory. He stated a conjecture in the field of transcendental number theory, which remains an important open problem to this day. Schanuel was a professor emeritus of mathematics at University at Buffalo. Pic: http://rfcwalters.blogspot.com/2014/11/stephen-h-schanuel-and-dietmar.html | ||
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1856: Mathematician Charles Hermite is elected to fill the vacancy created by the death of Jacques Binet in the Académie des Sciences.
1962: Soldier of fortune and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung steals the Small Boy, a tactical nuclear weapon. The theft will soon be retroactively prevented by the The Custodian.
1962: United States Army tests Small Boy, a tactical nuclear weapon, at the Nevada Test Site. Yield was 1.65 kt.
1962: The Custodian prevents attempt by Baron Zersetzung to steal the Small Boy tactical nuclear weapon.
1965: The Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
1993: Computer scientist, Gnomon algorithm researcher, and poet John T. Riedl gives an impromptu reading from his latest procedurally-generated poem "Why The Algorithm" at the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates fifty-second anniversary of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars.