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||1839: Gaspard de Prony dies ... mathematician and engineer, worked on hydraulics. Pic.
||1839: Gaspard de Prony dies ... mathematician and engineer, worked on hydraulics. Pic.
File:George Boole.jpg|link=George Boole (nonfiction)|1840: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[George Boole (nonfiction)|George Boole]] develops new system of symbolic logic which assists mathematicians in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1851: Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
||1851: Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
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||1970: Rollo Davidson dies in a mountaineering accident ... probabilist, alpinist, and Fellow-elect of Churchill College, Cambridge, who died aged 25 on Piz Bernina. He is known for his work on semigroups, stochastic geometry, and stochastic analysis,[1] and for the Rollo Davidson Prize, given in his name to young probabilists. Pic: http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/Rollo/
||1970: Rollo Davidson dies in a mountaineering accident ... probabilist, alpinist, and Fellow-elect of Churchill College, Cambridge, who died aged 25 on Piz Bernina. He is known for his work on semigroups, stochastic geometry, and stochastic analysis,[1] and for the Rollo Davidson Prize, given in his name to young probabilists. Pic: http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/Rollo/
||1976: Mickey Cohen dies ... mob boss. Pic.


File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|1976: ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says actor-cryptographer [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|Niles Cartouchian]].  
File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|1976: ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says actor-cryptographer [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|Niles Cartouchian]].  
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||2008: Bruce Edward Ivins dies ... scientist and bio-defense researcher. Pic.
||2008: Bruce Edward Ivins dies ... scientist and bio-defense researcher. Pic.


||2010: Nicolae Popescu dies ... mathematician and Emeritus Professor. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=nicolae+popescu
||2010: Nicolae Popescu dies ... mathematician and Emeritus Professor. Pic search.
 
File:Tractor.jpg|link=Tractor (nonfiction)|2015: ''[[Tractor (nonfiction)|Tractor]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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  • 1654: Pascal wrote to Fermat, questioning his solution to the 'problem of the points,' a probability problem.

    1654: Pascal wrote to Fermat, questioning his solution to the 'problem of the points,' a probability problem.

  • 1781: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies dies. He was one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and dedicated two of his works to the Englishman.

    1781: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies dies. He was one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and dedicated two of his works to the Englishman.

  • 1932: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.

    1932: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.

  • 1976: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says actor-cryptographer Niles Cartouchian.

    1976: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says actor-cryptographer Niles Cartouchian.

  • 1996: Mathematician and Doctor of Medicine Marcel-Paul Schützenberger dies. Schützenberger contributed to the fields of formal language, combinatorics, and information theory.

    1996: Mathematician and Doctor of Medicine Marcel-Paul Schützenberger dies. Schützenberger contributed to the fields of formal language, combinatorics, and information theory.

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