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[[File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Halting Problem.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|thumb|Combat surgeon and alleged time-traveller '''[[Asclepius Myrmidon]]''' publishes ''[[On Halting Problems]]'', his monumental study of pathological medical [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|algorithms]].]]• ... that the Vigenère cipher is misattributed to cryptographer and diplomat '''[[Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction)|Blaise de Vigenère]]''' (5 April 1523 – 19 February 1596), and that Vigenère devised a different, stronger cipher?
• ... that the Vigenère cipher is misattributed to cryptographer and diplomat '''[[Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction)|Blaise de Vigenère]]''' (5 April 1523 – 19 February 1596), and that Vigenère devised a different, stronger cipher?


• ... that surgeon and scientist '''[[Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|Joseph Lister]]'''  (5 April 1827 – 10 February 1912) pioneered antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865?


• ... that surgeon and scientist '''[[Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|Joseph Lister]]''' pioneered antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865?
• ... that '''[[Chaplygin gas (nonfiction)|Chaplygin gas]]''' is a hypothetical substance which occurs in certain theories of cosmology, satisfying an exotic equation of state involving pressure and density with a positive constant?


• ... that writer and crime-fighter [[Isaac Asimov (nonfiction)|Isaac Asimov]] wrote ''Two Plus Two Opens the Door'' after [[Alice Beta]] famously challenged Asimov to "explain [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to a five year old"; that ''Two Plus Two Opens the Door'' influenced a generation of young crime-fighting [[mathematicians]]; and that after Asimov's death in 1992, Beta published a revised edition as a tribute to Asimov?
• ... that ''On Halting Problems'' is a study of pathological medical algorithms, and that the work is anonymous but popularly attributed to combat surgeon and alleged time-traveler '''[[Asclepius Myrmidon]]'''?
 
• ... that '''[[Chaplygin gas (nonfiction)|Chaplygin gas]]''' is a hypothetical substance which occurs in certain theories of cosmology, satisfying an exotic equation of state involving pressure and density with a positive constant?

Latest revision as of 06:57, 5 April 2022

• ... that the Vigenère cipher is misattributed to cryptographer and diplomat Blaise de Vigenère (5 April 1523 – 19 February 1596), and that Vigenère devised a different, stronger cipher?

• ... that surgeon and scientist Joseph Lister (5 April 1827 – 10 February 1912) pioneered antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865?

• ... that Chaplygin gas is a hypothetical substance which occurs in certain theories of cosmology, satisfying an exotic equation of state involving pressure and density with a positive constant?

• ... that On Halting Problems is a study of pathological medical algorithms, and that the work is anonymous but popularly attributed to combat surgeon and alleged time-traveler Asclepius Myrmidon?