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||1965 – E. E. Smith, American engineer and author (b. 1890) | ||1965 – E. E. Smith, American engineer and author (b. 1890) | ||
File:Hello, world in C.svg|link="Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|1974: [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer program]] from 1974 warns about the coming of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||File:Hello, world in C.svg|link="Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|1974: [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer program]] from 1974 warns about the coming of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||2005 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908) | ||2005 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908) | ||
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||2013 – Jan Camiel Willems, Belgian mathematician and theorist (b. 1939) | ||2013 – Jan Camiel Willems, Belgian mathematician and theorist (b. 1939) | ||
File:The Eel Discovers Time Travel.jpg|link=The Eel Discovers Time Travel|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel Discovers Time Travel]]'' sells for two and a half million dollars." | |||
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1648: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne dies. He is remembered as the "father of acoustics".
1649: Architect Inigo Jones uses Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry to design buildings which are resistant to crimes against mathematical constants.
1945: Mathematician and academic Stefan Banach dies. He was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Discovers Time Travel sells for two and a half million dollars."