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||1950 – Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (b. 1883) | ||1950 – Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (b. 1883) | ||
||1963: Project Ford West succeeds in communicating via a ring of copper needles in orbit around the Earth. | |||
||1968 – Harold Gray, American cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie (b. 1894) | ||1968 – Harold Gray, American cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie (b. 1894) | ||
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1746: Mathematician and engineer Gaspard Monge born. He will invent descriptive geometry, and do pioneering work in differential geometry.
1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new theory of sets derived from Gnomon algorithm functions. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants."
1941: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
2017: Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus causes widespread debate about the role of private citizens in fighting crimes against mathematical constants.