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||Alexander Weinstein (d. 6 November 1979) was a mathematician who worked on boundary value problems in fluid dynamics. Pic. | ||Alexander Weinstein (d. 6 November 1979) was a mathematician who worked on boundary value problems in fluid dynamics. Pic. | ||
||Georges Henri Reeb (d. 6 November 1993) was a French mathematician. He worked in differential topology, differential geometry, differential equations, topological dynamical systems theory and non-standard analysis. Pic. | |||
||2002 – Sid Sackson, American game designer (b. 1920) board game designer and collector, best known as the creator of the business game ''Acquire''. | ||2002 – Sid Sackson, American game designer (b. 1920) board game designer and collector, best known as the creator of the business game ''Acquire''. | ||
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1656: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Morin dies.
1872: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alfred Clebsch publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use algebraic geometry and invariant theory to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1944: Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1971: The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
1973: The Pioneer 10 space probe begins taking photographs of Jupiter. A total of about 500 images will be transmitted.
2015: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.