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||1899: John Hasbrouck Van Vleck born ... physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1899: John Hasbrouck Van Vleck born ... physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1908: Myrtle Bachelder born ... chemist and Women's Army Corps officer ... Manhattan Project. | ||1900: Giorgos or George Seferis born ... Greek poet-diplomat. He was one of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel laureate. He was a career diplomat in the Greek Foreign Service. Pic. | ||
||1908: Myrtle Bachelder born ... chemist and Women's Army Corps officer ... Manhattan Project. Pic. | |||
File:Melvin Dresher.jpg|link=Melvin Dresher (nonfiction)|Mathematician [[Melvin Dresher (nonfiction)|Melvin Dresher]] (Dreszer) born. He will contribute to game theory, co-developing the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma. | File:Melvin Dresher.jpg|link=Melvin Dresher (nonfiction)|Mathematician [[Melvin Dresher (nonfiction)|Melvin Dresher]] (Dreszer) born. He will contribute to game theory, co-developing the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma. | ||
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1764: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey born. His government will see the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.
1877: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to compute new family of Gnomon algorithm functions.
Mathematician Melvin Dresher (Dreszer) born. He will contribute to game theory, co-developing the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma.
1969: Physicist, computer scientist, and APTO field engineer Howard H. Aiken publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which compute and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2015: Steganographic analysis of Nikola Tesla illustration unexpectedly reveals "at least a terabyte" of encrypted data, "almost certainly Tesla's case files on crimes against physical constants."
2016: Philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist Hilary Putnam dies. He argued for the reality of mathematical entities, later espousing the view that mathematics is not purely logical, but "quasi-empirical".