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||1971: Agnes Meyer Driscoll dies ... cryptanalyst during both World War I and World War II. Edwin T. Layton described her as "without peer as a cryptanalyst". | ||1971: Agnes Meyer Driscoll dies ... cryptanalyst during both World War I and World War II. Edwin T. Layton described her as "without peer as a cryptanalyst". | ||
||1975: Johannes Gaultherus van der Corput dies ... mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. He introduced the Van der Corput lemma, a technique for creating an upper bound on the measure of a set drawn from harmonic analysis, and the Van der Corput theorem on equidistribution modulo 1. Pic: https://www.ranker.com/review/johannes-van-der-corput/1298721 | |||
||1984: Louis Réard dies ... engineer and fashion designer, created the bikini. | ||1984: Louis Réard dies ... engineer and fashion designer, created the bikini. | ||
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1736: Physicist and engineer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit dies. He helped lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.
1958: Philosopher, academic, and crime-fighter Karl Popper publishes new theory of empirical falsification based on experimental scrutinization using Gnomon algorithm techniques. Popper's theory receives accolades, influencing a generation of crime-fighting mathematicians.
1964: Signed first edition of The Eel Time-Surfing sells for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
2005: Physicist and academic Gordon Gould dies. He invented and named the laser.
2006: Mathematician and crime-fighter Vladimir Arnold uses the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.