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|File:Lord_Kelvin.jpg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1900: "[[Crimes against mathematical constants]] are on the rise," warns Lord Kelvin. | |File:Lord_Kelvin.jpg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1900: "[[Crimes against mathematical constants]] are on the rise," warns Lord Kelvin. | ||
||William Edward Ayrton, FRS (d. 8 November 1908) was an English physicist and electrical engineer. | |||
||1918 – Hermann Zapf, German typographer and calligrapher (d. 2015) | ||1918 – Hermann Zapf, German typographer and calligrapher (d. 2015) |
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1703: Mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis dies. He served as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
1839: Birth of Ivan Goremykin heralds new age of Extreme Moustaches.
1848: Mathematician, logician, and philosopher Gottlob Frege born. Though will be largely ignored during his lifetime, his work will influence later generations of logicians and philosophers.
1895: While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
1974: Green Ring tells Dick Cavett a funny story about Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography.
1969: Astronomer Vesto Melvin Slipher dies. He performed the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe.