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File:Chronography of 354 title and dedication.png|link=Chronography of 354 (nonfiction)|1976: [[Chronography of 354 (nonfiction)|Chronography of 354]] wins Pulitzer Prize. | File:Chronography of 354 title and dedication.png|link=Chronography of 354 (nonfiction)|1976: [[Chronography of 354 (nonfiction)|Chronography of 354]] wins Pulitzer Prize. | ||
||1980: Vladimir Potapov dies ... He worked on the theory of J-contractive matrix functions, the analysis of matrix functions, and interpolation problems. mathematician. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=vladimir+potapov+mathematician | |||
File:Mandelbrot set command line depiction.png|link=Mandelbrot set (nonfiction)|1984: [[Mandelbrot set (nonfiction)|Mandelbrot set]] develops [[Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|artificial intelligence]], discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | File:Mandelbrot set command line depiction.png|link=Mandelbrot set (nonfiction)|1984: [[Mandelbrot set (nonfiction)|Mandelbrot set]] develops [[Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|artificial intelligence]], discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | ||
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||2014: Anatole Beck dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||2014: Anatole Beck dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
||2016: Sidney David Drell dies ... theoretical physicist and arms control expert. | ||2016: Sidney David Drell dies ... theoretical physicist and arms control expert. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Sidney+David+Drell | ||
File:Traveller.jpg|link=Traveller (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Traveller (nonfiction)|Traveller]]'' used in [[high-energy literature]] experiments develops [[Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|artificial intelligence]]. | File:Traveller.jpg|link=Traveller (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Traveller (nonfiction)|Traveller]]'' used in [[high-energy literature]] experiments develops [[Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|artificial intelligence]]. | ||
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1807: Mathematician Joseph Fourier announced to the French Academy of Science that an arbitrary function could be expanded as an infinite series of sines and cosines (now known as the Fourier series).
1878: Mathematician and philosopher Jan Łukasiewicz born. He will think innovatively about traditional propositional logic, the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle.
1913: Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.
1974: Fantasy Voronoi diagram upstages Fantasy Football.
1976: Chronography of 354 wins Pulitzer Prize.
1984: Mandelbrot set develops artificial intelligence, discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
2016: Signed first edition of Traveller used in high-energy literature experiments develops artificial intelligence.