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||Joseph Johann von Littrow (b. 13 March 1781) was an Austrian astronomer. | ||Joseph Johann von Littrow (b. 13 March 1781) was an Austrian astronomer. | ||
||Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (b. 13 March 1842) was a French mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to the theory of hydrodynamics, vibration, light, and heat. | |||
||1855 – Percival Lowell, American astronomer and mathematician (d. 1916) | ||1855 – Percival Lowell, American astronomer and mathematician (d. 1916) | ||
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1763: Mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1764: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey born. His government will see the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.
1877: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to compute new family of Gnomon algorithm functions.
Mathematician Melvin Dresher (Dreszer) born. He will contribute to game theory, co-developing the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma.
2016: Philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist Hilary Putnam dies. He argued for the reality of mathematical entities, later espousing the view that mathematics is not purely logical, but "quasi-empirical".