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||2016: Jacques Jean-Pierre Neveu dies ... mathematician, specializing in probability theory. He is one of the founders of the French school (post WW II) of probability and statistics. Pic.


File:Triumph.jpg|link=Triumph (nonfiction)|2019: ''[[Triumph (nonfiction)|Triumph]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
|File:Anarchimedes.jpg|link=Anarchimedes|2017: Math criminal [[Anarchimedes]] plans to steal, restore, and [[Weaponization (nonfiction)|weaponize]] the [[Antikythera mechanism]], warn crime analysts.


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  • 1765: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist Alexis Clairaut dies. His work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687.

    1765: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist Alexis Clairaut dies. His work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687.

  • 1902: Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.

    1902: Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.

  • 1973: Watergate scandal (nonfiction): Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.

    1973: Watergate scandal (nonfiction): Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.

  • 2001: Mathematician Jacques-Louis Lions dies. He made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control.

    2001: Mathematician Jacques-Louis Lions dies. He made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control.

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