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||1930: Stephen Smale born ... American mathematician and computer scientist (Alive Aug. 2018).
||1930: Stephen Smale born ... American mathematician and computer scientist (Alive Aug. 2018).
||1936: Richard Dixon Oldham dies ... seismologist and geologist ... Oldham made the first clear identification of the separate arrivals of P-waves, S-waves and surface waves on seismograms and the first clear evidence that the Earth has a central core. Pic.


||1955: Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
||1955: Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.

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  • 998: Mathematician and astronomer Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī dies. His Almagest was widely read by medieval Arabic astronomers in the centuries after his death.

    998: Mathematician and astronomer Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī dies. His Almagest was widely read by medieval Arabic astronomers in the centuries after his death.

  • 1188: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1188: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1573: Architect Inigo Jones born. He will be one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.

    1573: Architect Inigo Jones born. He will be one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.

  • 1848: Engineer, sociologist, economist, political scientist, and philosopher Vilfredo Pareto born. He will apply mathematics to economic analysis, asserting that the distribution of incomes and wealth in society is not random and that a consistent pattern appears throughout history, in all parts of the world and in all societies.

    1848: Engineer, sociologist, economist, political scientist, and philosopher Vilfredo Pareto born. He will apply mathematics to economic analysis, asserting that the distribution of incomes and wealth in society is not random and that a consistent pattern appears throughout history, in all parts of the world and in all societies.

  • 1864: Adventurer and alleged time-travelling "Pirate of the Prairies" Wallace War-Heels defeats Baron Zersetzung in single combat.

    1864: Adventurer and alleged time-travelling "Pirate of the Prairies" Wallace War-Heels defeats Baron Zersetzung in single combat.

  • 1865: Mathematician Wilhelm Wirtinger born. He will contribute to complex analysis, geometry, algebra, number theory, Lie groups and knot theory.

    1865: Mathematician Wilhelm Wirtinger born. He will contribute to complex analysis, geometry, algebra, number theory, Lie groups and knot theory.

  • 1866: Social activist and alleged superhero The Governess chastises math criminals, shames them into returning stolen digits.

    1866: Social activist and alleged superhero The Governess chastises math criminals, shames them into returning stolen digits.

  • 2004: Mathematician Derek Taunt dies. He worked as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II.

    2004: Mathematician Derek Taunt dies. He worked as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II.

  • 2013: Computer scientist and academic John T. Riedl dies. He was a founder of the field of recommender systems, social computing, and interactive intelligent user interface systems.

    2013: Computer scientist and academic John T. Riedl dies. He was a founder of the field of recommender systems, social computing, and interactive intelligent user interface systems.

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