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||1919 – Kateryna Yushchenko, Ukrainian computer scientist and academic (d. 2001) | ||1919 – Kateryna Yushchenko, Ukrainian computer scientist and academic (d. 2001) | ||
File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1932: US Navy raises flock of [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]]. | ||File:Hermann Weyl.jpg|link=Hermann Weyl (nonfiction)|1929: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Hermann Weyl (nonfiction)|Hermann Weyl]] uses fermions (now known as [[Weyl semimetal (nonfiction)|Weyl semimetals (nonfiction)]]) to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
|File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1932: US Navy raises flock of [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]]. | |||
||1941 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy", after which the U.S. declares war on Japan. | ||1941 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy", after which the U.S. declares war on Japan. | ||
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1825: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to compute new family of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1834: Inventor and crime-fighter Charles Grafton Page builds new type of scrying engine.
1835: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey secretly prints first edition of The Adulteration of Bergamot.
1864: Mathematician and philosopher George Boole dies. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.
1865: Mathematician Jacques Hadamard born. He will make major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations.
1955: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Hermann Weyl dies. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century: his research has major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines including number theory.
2017: First use of Weyl semimetal crystals as a quantum time machine which detects and prevents crimes against mathematical constants.
