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||Claude Jacques Berge (b. 5 June 1926) was a French mathematician, recognized as one of the modern founders of combinatorics and graph theory. | ||Claude Jacques Berge (b. 5 June 1926) was a French mathematician, recognized as one of the modern founders of combinatorics and graph theory. | ||
||Peter John Landin (b. 5 June 1930) was a British computer scientist. He was one of the first to realize that the lambda calculus could be used to model a programming language, an insight that is essential to development of both functional programming and denotational semantics. Pic. | |||
||1933 – The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold. | ||1933 – The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold. | ||
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1756: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal born.
1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military Gnomon algorithm functions.
1865: Council of algorithms announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.
1910: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, dies.
2004: John Brunner publishes history of crimes against mathematical constants.
2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury dies. The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".