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||1921 – Mary Jackson, African American mathematician and aerospace engineer (d. 2005) | ||1921 – Mary Jackson, African American mathematician and aerospace engineer (d. 2005) | ||
||Leon Albert Henkin (b. April 19, 1921) was a logician at the University of California, Berkeley. He was principally known for "Henkin construction", his version of the proof of the semantic completeness of standard systems of first-order logic. Pic. | |||
||1930 – F. Albert Cotton, American chemist and academic (d. 2007) | ||1930 – F. Albert Cotton, American chemist and academic (d. 2007) |
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1572: New method for predicting lottery winners reveals new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1912: Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg born. He will share the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis, discovery, and investigation of transuranium elements.
1913: Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "the most prescient illustration of the decade".
1914: Mathematician and philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce dies. He is remembered as "the father of pragmatism".
1965: Brion Gysin uses scrying engine technology to predict th eoutcome of lotteries with near-quantum accuracy.