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||1902 – Abraham Wald, Romanian mathematician and economist (d. 1950) | ||1902 – Abraham Wald, Romanian mathematician and economist (d. 1950) | ||
||Aleksander Ilyich Akhiezer (b. October 31, 1911) was a Soviet theoretical physicist, known for contributions to numerous branches of theoretical physics, including quantum electrodynamics, nuclear physics, solid state physics, quantum field theory, and the theory of plasma. | |||
||1914 – John Hugenholtz, Dutch engineer and designer (d. 1995) | ||1914 – John Hugenholtz, Dutch engineer and designer (d. 1995) |
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1815: Mathematician and academic Karl Weierstrass born. He will be cited as the "father of modern analysis".
1847: Physicist and electrical engineer Galileo Ferraris born. He will be a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor.
2017: Steganographic analysis of The Eel Escapes Hydrolab reveals fifteen terabytes of encrypted data.