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||1685 – Brook Taylor, English mathematician and theorist (d. 1731) | ||1685 – Brook Taylor, English mathematician and theorist (d. 1731) | ||
||Samuel Klingenstierna (b. 18 August 1698) was a mathematician, scientist, and academic. He was instrumental in the invention of the Achromatic Telescope. Pic. | |||
||1774 – Meriwether Lewis, American soldier, explorer, and politician (d. 1809) | ||1774 – Meriwether Lewis, American soldier, explorer, and politician (d. 1809) | ||
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1633: Mathematician, physicist, inventor, and Christian crime-fighter Blaise Pascal demonstrates pioneering calculating machine which detects and prevents crimes against physics.
1634: Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France. He was the victim of a politically motivated persecution led by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
1635: Mathematician, theologian, and crime-fighter Marin Mersenne uses new theory of acoustics to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1910: Mathematician Pál Turán born. He will work primarily in number theory, but also contribute to analysis and graph theory.
1910: Judge Havelock and Nikola Tesla demonstrate new data transmission protocols which will be useful in predicting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1911: Computer scientist Klara Dan von Neumann born. She will be one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.
2016: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.