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||1917: World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day". | ||1917: World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day". | ||
||1926: Claude Jacques Berge born ... mathematician, recognized as one of the modern founders of combinatorics and graph theory. | ||1926: Claude Jacques Berge born ... mathematician, recognized as one of the modern founders of combinatorics and graph theory. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Claude-Berge | ||
||1930: Peter John Landin born ... computer scientist. He was one of the first to realize that the lambda calculus could be used to model a programming language, an insight that is essential to development of both functional programming and denotational semantics. Pic. | ||1930: Peter John Landin born ... computer scientist. He was one of the first to realize that the lambda calculus could be used to model a programming language, an insight that is essential to development of both functional programming and denotational semantics. Pic. | ||
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1756: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal born.
1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military Gnomon algorithm functions.
1865: Council of algorithms announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.
1910: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, dies.
2004: John Brunner publishes history of crimes against mathematical constants.
2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury dies. The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".