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1494: Mathematician and cartographer Oronce Finé born. He will be imprisoned in 1524, probably for practicing judicial astrology.
1494: Brainiac Explains lecture series denounces judicial astrology as "irrational."
1757: Joseph Marie Jacquard has dream which inspires him to study the Gnomon algorithm.
1809: Physicist and academic Antoine César Becquerel uses Gnomon algorithm to generate electricity.
1876: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to compute new family of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1901: Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff born. He will design design and construct high-voltage Van de Graaff generators.
1921: Council of algorithms announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.
1922: Hilbert curve prevents crime against mathematical constants.
1951: The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.
1962: Mathematician Emil Artin dies. He worked on algebraic number theory, contributing to class field theory and a new construction of L-functions. He also contributed to the pure theories of rings, groups and fields.

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 File:Hilbert_curve.gif|link=Hilbert Curve (nonfiction)|1922: [[Hilbert curve (nonfiction)|Hilbert curve]] prevents [[crime against mathematical constants]].
 File:EBR-I powers four light bulbs.jpg|link=Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|1951: The [[Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|EBR-1]] in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.
+File:Emil Artin.jpg|link=Emil Artin (nonfiction)|1962: Mathematician [[Emil Artin (nonfiction)|Emil Artin]] dies. He worked on algebraic number theory, contributing to class field theory and a new construction of L-functions. He also contributed to the pure theories of rings, groups and fields.
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