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||1919 – Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1854) | ||1919 – Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1854) | ||
||Karl Longin Zeller (b. 1924) was a German mathematician and computer scientist who worked in numerical analysis and approximation theory.[1] He is the namesake of Zeller operators. | |||
Zeller was drafted into the German army, and lost his right arm on the Soviet front of World War II.[1] He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Tübingen in 1950, under the supervision of Konrad Knopp and Erich Kamke,[2] and remained at Tübingen for most of his career as a professor and as director of the computer center. He left Tübingen in 1959 for a professorship in Stuttgart but returned to Tübingen in 1960 with a personal chair in "the mathematics of supercomputer facilities" (German: Mathematik der Hochleistungsrechenanlagen), making him one of the founders of computer science in Germany. | |||
File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1933: [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]] break their tethers, eat over two hundred head of cattle. | File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1933: [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]] break their tethers, eat over two hundred head of cattle. | ||
Revision as of 21:21, 26 November 2017
1521: Polymath Gerolamo Cardano uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to prevent Gnotilus from secreting geometry solvent.
1882: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Arthur Eddington born. He will become famous for his work concerning the theory of relativity.
1895: Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.
1903: Mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist John von Neumann born. He will be a key figure in the development of the digital computer, and develop mathematical models of both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.
1933: Carnivorous dirigibles break their tethers, eat over two hundred head of cattle.
1997: Computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth invents new type of scrying engine.
2002: John Ambrose Fleming uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to counteract effects of geometry solvent.
2017: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.