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|File:Venera 7.jpg|link=Venera 7 (nonfiction)|1971: Soviet spacecraft [[Venera 7 (nonfiction)|Venera 7]] allegedly discovers secret [[math lab]] on the planet Venus. | |File:Venera 7.jpg|link=Venera 7 (nonfiction)|1971: Soviet spacecraft [[Venera 7 (nonfiction)|Venera 7]] allegedly discovers secret [[math lab]] on the planet Venus. | ||
||Bernard Osgood Koopman (d. August 18, 1981) was a French-born American mathematician, known for his work in ergodic theory, the foundations of probability, statistical theory and operations research. | |||
||2001 – David Peakall, English chemist and toxicologist (b. 1931) - DDT, thinning eggshells | ||2001 – David Peakall, English chemist and toxicologist (b. 1931) - DDT, thinning eggshells | ||
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1634: Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France. He was the victim of a politically motivated persecution led by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
1635: Mathematician, theologian, and crime-fighter Marin Mersenne uses new theory of acoustics to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1910: Mathematician Pál Turán born. He will work primarily in number theory, but also contribute to analysis and graph theory.
1910: Judge Havelock and Nikola Tesla demonstrate new data transmission protocols which will be useful in predicting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1911: Computer scientist Klara Dan von Neumann born. She will be one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.
2016: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.