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1647: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli dies. He invented the barometer, made advances in optics, and worked on the method of indivisibles.
1713: Gottfried Leibniz, in a letter to Johann Bernoulli, observed that an alternating series whose terms monotonically decrease to zero in absolute value is convergent.
1923: Aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky demonstrates experimental helicopter which uses time crystals (nonfiction) to reduce fuel cost.
1927: Writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes received Pulitzer Prize for his essay on Alice Beta's contributions to Gnomon algorithm theory.
1927: Mathematician, naval engineer, and cryptid-hunter Aleksey Krylov publishes his pioneering theory of efficient computation, later known as Krylon's Gnomon algorithm, which detects and repels aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter.
1928: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic Peter Naur born. He will contribute to the design, structure, and performance of computer programs and algorithms.
1962: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alfred Tarski publishes new theory of metamathematical analysis which quickly finds applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

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 ||1915: Ivan Morton Niven dies ... mathematician, specializing in number theory.  Pic.
+File:Igor Sikorsky 1914.jpg|link=Igor Sikorsky (nonfiction)|1923: Aircraft designer [[Igor Sikorsky (nonfiction)|Igor Sikorsky]] demonstrates experimental helicopter which uses [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals (nonfiction)]] to reduce fuel cost.
 File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1927: Writer and alleged troll [[Culvert Origenes]] received Pulitzer Prize for his essay on [[Alice Beta]]'s contributions to [[Gnomon algorithm]] theory.