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||1921: Gabriel Lippmann dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1921: Gabriel Lippmann dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1934: Mary E. Byrd dies ... astronomer and academic. | ||1934: Mary E. Byrd dies ... astronomer and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Mary+E.+Byrd | ||
||1941: Ivan Privalov dies ... mathematician best known for his work on analytic functions. studied analytic functions in the vicinity of singular points by means of measure theory and Lebesgue integrals. He also obtained important results on conformal mappings showing that angles were preserved on the boundary almost everywhere. In 1934 he studied subharmonic functions, building on the work of Riesz. He published the monograph Subharmonic Functions in 1937 which gave the general theory of these functions and contained many results from his papers published between 1934 and 1937. *SAU Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Ivan+Privalov&oq=Ivan+Privalov | ||1941: Ivan Privalov dies ... mathematician best known for his work on analytic functions. studied analytic functions in the vicinity of singular points by means of measure theory and Lebesgue integrals. He also obtained important results on conformal mappings showing that angles were preserved on the boundary almost everywhere. In 1934 he studied subharmonic functions, building on the work of Riesz. He published the monograph Subharmonic Functions in 1937 which gave the general theory of these functions and contained many results from his papers published between 1934 and 1937. *SAU Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Ivan+Privalov&oq=Ivan+Privalov | ||
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100 BC: Roman general and statesman Julius Caesar born. He will play a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire.
1527: Mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer John Dee born. He will achieve high status as a scholar and play a role in Elizabethan politics.
1956: John McCarthy (Dartmouth College), Marvin Minsky (MIT), Claude Shannon (Bell Labs), and Nathaniel Rochester (IBM) assemble the first coordinated research meeting on the topic of "Artificial intelligence" at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. USA.
1972: Signed first edition of Skip Digits, Conductor sells for one million dollars; House Democrats say money trail leads to Richard Nixon.
1973: Watergate scandal (nonfiction): Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the "Nixon tapes" to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break-in.
1974: Mathematician and crime-fighter Hilary Putnam publishes his landmark paper arguing that mathematics is not purely logical, but "quasi-empirical", and that we should beware the possibility of "quasi-empirical crimes".
2015: Steganographic analysis of Blue City Sunset reveals "five hundred kilobytes, perhaps six hundred" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.