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||Adrien Douady (d. 2 November 2006) was a French mathematician. | ||Adrien Douady (d. 2 November 2006) was a French mathematician. | ||
||Captain Forrest R. "Tex" Biard (d. November 2, 2009) was an American linguist in the U.S. Navy codebreaking organization during the Second World War. A pre-war student of Japanese, Biard's translation work is considered to have been an important part of American military success. | |||
||2015 – Roy Dommett, English scientist and engineer (b. 1933) rockets | ||2015 – Roy Dommett, English scientist and engineer (b. 1933) rockets | ||
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1815: Mathematician and philosopher George Boole born. He will work in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.
1893: Mathematician and crime-fighter George Chrystal publishes evidence that seiches (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water) are vulnerable to both crimes against physics and crimes against chemistry.
1903: George P. Metesky born. He will terrorize New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he plants in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.