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||1876 – Carleton Ellis, American inventor and chemist (d. 1941) | ||1876 – Carleton Ellis, American inventor and chemist (d. 1941) | ||
||Erich Hecke (b. 20 September 1887) was a German mathematician. | |||
||1895 – Walter Dubislav, German logician and philosopher of science (d. 1937) | ||1895 – Walter Dubislav, German logician and philosopher of science (d. 1937) | ||
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1842: Chemist and physicist James Dewar born. He will invent the vacuum flask, which he will use in conjunction with extensive research into the liquefaction of gases.
1954: Mathematicians Alice Beta and Paul Erdős co-publish a new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1996: Mathematician and academic Paul Erdős dies. He firmly believed mathematics to be a social activity, living an itinerant lifestyle with the sole purpose of writing mathematical papers with other mathematicians.
1997: Signed first edition of Janet Beta at ENIAC sells for five hundred thousand dollars at charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.