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||1978: Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh dies ... scientist in the field of mathematics and mechanics. He was one of the key figures behind Soviet space program. Among scientific circles of USSR Keldysh was known with epithet "the Chief Theoretician". Pic. | ||1978: Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh dies ... scientist in the field of mathematics and mechanics. He was one of the key figures behind Soviet space program. Among scientific circles of USSR Keldysh was known with epithet "the Chief Theoretician". Pic. | ||
||1990: William Kneale dies ... logician and philosopher ... best known for his 1962 book ''The Development of Logic'', a history of logic from its beginnings in Ancient Greece written with his wife Martha.Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=william+kneale | |||
||1996: Peter Thullen dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||1996: Peter Thullen dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
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||2005: Günter Lumer dies ... was a mathematician known for his work in functional analysis. He is the namesake of the Lumer–Phillips theorem on semigroups of operators on Banach spaces, and was the first to study semi-inner-products. Pic. | ||2005: Günter Lumer dies ... was a mathematician known for his work in functional analysis. He is the namesake of the Lumer–Phillips theorem on semigroups of operators on Banach spaces, and was the first to study semi-inner-products. Pic. | ||
||2008: Gerhard Ringel dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||2008: Gerhard Ringel dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic (surfing!). | ||
||2012: Gu Chaohao dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||2012: Gu Chaohao dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||
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1660: Priest, astromomer, and crime-fighter Giovanni Battista Riccioli publishes new scheme of lunar nomenclature which anticipates future developments in detecting and preventing crimes against astronomical constants.
1709: Public test of Bartolomeu de Gusmão's airship fails to take place.
1860: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer publishes complete working plans for a submarine which is undetectable by alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter.
1880: Mathematician and academic Oswald Veblen born. His work will find application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.
1886: Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess wins Pulitzer prize, hailed as "most entertaining illustration of our time."
2016: Steganographic analysis of Boxes unexpectedly reveals previously unknown type of cryptographic numen. APTO's department of Gnomon algorithm research calls it "a remarkable breakthrough."