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||2001 – Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and author (b. 1915) | ||2001 – Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and author (b. 1915) | ||
||Sergey Mergelyan (died 20 August 2008) was an Armenian mathematician who made major contributions to Approximation Theory. Pic. | |||
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1672: Mathematician and politician Johan de Witt dies in a riot. The rioters will partially eat his body.
1923: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
1961: Physicist and academic Percy Williams Bridgman dies. He won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures.
1962: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.