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||1956: Heinrich Scholz dies ... logician, philosopher, and Protestant theologian. Pic. | ||1956: Heinrich Scholz dies ... logician, philosopher, and Protestant theologian. Pic. | ||
||1965: Statistician and academic Evelyn Fix dies ... She and Joseph Hodges, Jr. will publish a groundbreaking paper, "Discriminatory Analysis. Nonparametric Discrimination: Consistency Properties," which defines the nearest neighbor rule, an important method which will later become a key piece of machine learning technologies, the k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) algorithm. Pic: https://statistics.berkeley.edu/history/biographies/evelyn-fix | ||1965: Statistician and academic Evelyn Fix dies ... She and Joseph Hodges, Jr. will publish a groundbreaking paper, "Discriminatory Analysis. Nonparametric Discrimination: Consistency Properties," which defines the nearest neighbor rule, an important method which will later become a key piece of machine learning technologies, the k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) algorithm. Pic: https://statistics.berkeley.edu/history/biographies/evelyn-fix | ||
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1563: Mathematician, fencer, and APTO field engineer Ludolph van Ceulen publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1842: Osman Hamdi Bey born. He will be an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.
1892: Mathematician Pekka Myrberg born. He will do fundamental work on the iteration of rational functions (especially quadratic functions), developing the concept of period-doubling. Myrberg's research will revive interest in the results of Gaston Julia and Pierre Fatou.
1916: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin dies.
1947: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead dies. He was a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.
1947: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren dies. He was one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.
1954: Tunguska Event Preservation Society pledge drive day.
2013: Mathematician and academic Paul Sally dies. He was known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago".
2016: Eye Foot is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.