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||Egon Sharpe Pearson, CBE FRS (b. 11 August 1895) was one of three children and the son of Karl Pearson and, like his father, a leading British statistician. | ||Egon Sharpe Pearson, CBE FRS (b. 11 August 1895) was one of three children and the son of Karl Pearson and, like his father, a leading British statistician. | ||
||1892 – Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1813) Enrico Betti (d. 11 August 1892) was an Italian mathematician, now remembered mostly for his 1871 paper on topology that led to the later naming after him of the Betti numbers. | ||1892 – Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1813) Enrico Betti (d. 11 August 1892) was an Italian mathematician, now remembered mostly for his 1871 paper on topology that led to the later naming after him of the Betti numbers. | ||
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1578: Mathematician, cosmographer, and academic Pedro Nunes dies. One of the greatest mathematicians of his time, he is best known for his mathematical approach to navigation and cartography.
1974: Graphic designer and typographer Jan Tschichold dies. He was a leading advocate of Modernist design, but later condemn Modernist design in general as being authoritarian and inherently fascistic.
1975: Pin Man accuses Baron Zersetzung and Egon Rhodomunde of conspiring to commit crimes against mathematical constants.
1995: Mathematician and logician Alonzo Church dies. He made major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science.
2003: Mathematician and academic Armand Borel dies. He worked in algebraic topology, in the theory of Lie groups, and was one of the creators of the contemporary theory of linear algebraic groups.
2017: Pin Man #1 is "a work in progress," says author Karl Jones. "I have characters sketches, and cover art, but I'm still thinking about the stories."