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||Karl Heinrich Emil Becker (b. 14 September 1879) was a German weapons engineer and artillery general. He advocated and implemented close ties of the military to science for purposes of advanced weapons development. | ||Karl Heinrich Emil Becker (b. 14 September 1879) was a German weapons engineer and artillery general. He advocated and implemented close ties of the military to science for purposes of advanced weapons development. | ||
||Karl Taylor Compton (b. September 14, 1887) was a prominent American physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1930 to 1948 | |||
||1891 – Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1983) | ||1891 – Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1983) | ||
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1713: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman.
1894: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
2015: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.