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||1972: Johannes de Groot dies ... mathematician, the leading Dutch topologist for more than two decades following World War II. Pic.
||1972: Johannes de Groot dies ... mathematician, the leading Dutch topologist for more than two decades following World War II. Pic.
File:Peter Giblets.jpg|link=Peter Giblets|1973: Talk show host [[Peter Giblets]] exchanges record number of witticisms-per-minute with talk show host [[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] on the highest-ever rated episode of the ''Peter Giblets Hour''.


||1986: Henry DeWolf Smyth dies ... physicist, diplomat, and bureaucrat. He played a number of key roles in the early development of nuclear energy, as a participant in the Manhattan Project, a member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), and U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Pic.
||1986: Henry DeWolf Smyth dies ... physicist, diplomat, and bureaucrat. He played a number of key roles in the early development of nuclear energy, as a participant in the Manhattan Project, a member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), and U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Pic.
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||2012: Irving S. Reed dies ... mathematician and engineer. He is best known for co-inventing a class of algebraic error-correcting and error-detecting codes known as Reed–Solomon codes in collaboration with Gustave Solomon. He also co-invented the Reed–Muller code. Pic search.
||2012: Irving S. Reed dies ... mathematician and engineer. He is best known for co-inventing a class of algebraic error-correcting and error-detecting codes known as Reed–Solomon codes in collaboration with Gustave Solomon. He also co-invented the Reed–Muller code. Pic search.


File:Andrzej Trybulec.jpg|link=Andrzej Trybulec|2013: Mathematician and computer scientist [[Andrzej Trybulec (nonfiction)|Andrzej Trybulec]] dies. He developed the Mizar system: a formal language for writing mathematical definitions and proofs, a proof assistant which is able to mechanically check proofs written in this language, and a library of formalized mathematics which can be used in the proof of new theorems.
File:Andrzej Trybulec.jpg|link=Andrzej Trybulec (nonfiction)|2013: Mathematician and computer scientist [[Andrzej Trybulec (nonfiction)|Andrzej Trybulec]] dies. He developed the Mizar system: a formal language for writing mathematical definitions and proofs, a proof assistant which is able to mechanically check proofs written in this language, and a library of formalized mathematics which can be used in the proof of new theorems.
 
File:Do_Not_Tease_Monster_by_Karl_Jones_800x600.jpg|link=Do Not Tease Monster (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Do Not Tease Monster]]'' stolen from the private collection of celebrity [[Peter Giblets]] by agents of the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang, held for ransom.


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  • 1470: Mapmaker Martin Waldseemüller born. He will produce a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map using the information from Columbus and Vespucci's travels (Universalis Cosmographia), both bearing the first use of the name "America".

    1470: Mapmaker Martin Waldseemüller born. He will produce a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map using the information from Columbus and Vespucci's travels (Universalis Cosmographia), both bearing the first use of the name "America".

  • 1798: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician Franz Ernst Neumann born. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds will include what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents.

    1798: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician Franz Ernst Neumann born. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds will include what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents.

  • 1831: Mathematician Carl Jacobi appointed professor. After a four hour disputation in Latin, Jacobi was appointed professor at the University of Konigsberg. While there he inaugurated what was then a complete novelty in mathematics: research seminars for the more advanced students and interested colleagues.

    1831: Mathematician Carl Jacobi appointed professor. After a four hour disputation in Latin, Jacobi was appointed professor at the University of Konigsberg. While there he inaugurated what was then a complete novelty in mathematics: research seminars for the more advanced students and interested colleagues.

  • 1843: Mathematician and explorer Joseph Nicollet dies. He mapped the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s.

    1843: Mathematician and explorer Joseph Nicollet dies. He mapped the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s.

  • 1862: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, born.

    1862: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, born.

  • 1890: Felice Casorati dies. Casorati is best known for the Casorati–Weierstrass theorem in complex analysis.

    1890: Felice Casorati dies. Casorati is best known for the Casorati–Weierstrass theorem in complex analysis.

  • 1997: NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.

    1997: NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.

  • 2013: Mathematician and computer scientist Andrzej Trybulec dies. He developed the Mizar system: a formal language for writing mathematical definitions and proofs, a proof assistant which is able to mechanically check proofs written in this language, and a library of formalized mathematics which can be used in the proof of new theorems.

    2013: Mathematician and computer scientist Andrzej Trybulec dies. He developed the Mizar system: a formal language for writing mathematical definitions and proofs, a proof assistant which is able to mechanically check proofs written in this language, and a library of formalized mathematics which can be used in the proof of new theorems.

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