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||1916 – Percival Lowell, American astronomer, mathematician, and author (b. 1855) | ||1916 – Percival Lowell, American astronomer, mathematician, and author (b. 1855) | ||
||Georges Henri Reeb (b. 12 November 1920) was a French mathematician. He worked in differential topology, differential geometry, differential equations, topological dynamical systems theory and non-standard analysis. Pic. | |||
||Yutaka Taniyama (b. 12 November 1927) was a Japanese mathematician known for the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture. Pic. | ||Yutaka Taniyama (b. 12 November 1927) was a Japanese mathematician known for the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture. Pic. | ||
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1608: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
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1941: New York mobster and hit man Abe Reles dies.
1942: Mathematician and soldier Janet Beta discovers evidence Colonel Zersetzung is secretly diverting government-issued Extract of Radium for his personal use.
1944: Mathematician George David Birkhoff dies. He was one of the most important leaders in American mathematics in his generation.
1946: Military officer and alleged crime bos Colonel Zersetzung uses Extract of Radium to secretly synthesize illegal Clandestiphrine.
1947: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren is convicted on falsification and fraud charges.
1989: AESOP predicts that Tim Berners-Lee will propose the World Wide Web one year from today.
1990: Engineer and computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.