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||1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission. | ||1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission. | ||
||Aristid Lindenmayer (d. 30 October 1989) was a Hungarian biologist. In 1968 he developed a type of formal languages that is today called L-systems or Lindenmayer Systems. Using those systems Lindenmayer modelled the behaviour of cells of plants. L-systems nowadays are also used to model whole plants. Lindenmayer worked with yeast and filamentous fungi and studied the growth patterns of various types of algae, such as the blue/green bacteria Anabaena catenula. Originally the L-systems were devised to provide a formal description of the development of such simple multicellular organisms, and to illustrate the neighbourhood relationships between plant cells. Later on, this system was extended to describe higher plants and complex branching structures. No pic, use diagram. | |||
File:Irving Adler age 75.jpg|link=Irving Adler (nonfiction)|2008: Mathematician, social activist, and crime-fighter [[Irving Adler (nonfiction)|Irving Adler]] publishes evidence that high-level [[crimes against mathematical constants]] have been covered up by the government for decades. | File:Irving Adler age 75.jpg|link=Irving Adler (nonfiction)|2008: Mathematician, social activist, and crime-fighter [[Irving Adler (nonfiction)|Irving Adler]] publishes evidence that high-level [[crimes against mathematical constants]] have been covered up by the government for decades. |
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1626: Astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius dies. In 1615 he conducted a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a machine gun attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1925: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
2008: Mathematician, social activist, and crime-fighter Irving Adler publishes evidence that high-level crimes against mathematical constants have been covered up by the government for decades.
2009: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss dies. His work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.