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File:Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|1885: The well-known illustration ''[[Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|Interview with Wallace War-Heels]]'' is stolen by [[math criminals]], who demand computational ransom. | File:Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|1885: The well-known illustration ''[[Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|Interview with Wallace War-Heels]]'' is stolen by [[math criminals]], who demand computational ransom. | ||
||1886: Walter H. Schottky born ... physicist and engineer. | ||1886: Walter H. Schottky born ... physicist and engineer. Pic. | ||
||1895: William Bleckwenn born ... neurologist, psychiatrist, and military physician, who was instrumental in developing the treatment known as "narcoanalysis" or "narcosynthesis", also known by the lay term "truth serum". Pic. | |||
||1903: Theodore Christian Schneirla born ... comparative psychologist whose empirical work was based on observations on the behavior patterns of army ants. His "biphasic A-W theory" reduced all behavior to two simple responses: approach and withdrawal -- we approach what causes pleasure, and we withdraw from what causes unpleasure or pain. | ||1903: Theodore Christian Schneirla born ... comparative psychologist whose empirical work was based on observations on the behavior patterns of army ants. His "biphasic A-W theory" reduced all behavior to two simple responses: approach and withdrawal -- we approach what causes pleasure, and we withdraw from what causes unpleasure or pain. | ||
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1754: Joseph-Louis Lagrange publishes his first work, in the form of a letter in Italian. A month later he realized that he had rediscovered Leibniz's formula for the nth derivative of a product.
1829: William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
1885: The well-known illustration Interview with Wallace War-Heels is stolen by math criminals, who demand computational ransom.
1934: Mathematician and crime-fighter Hans Hahn publishes new analysis of set theory which soons finds application in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1928: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin born. She will discover the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.
1962: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta uses Telstar to communicate with AESOP.
1962: Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
2017: AESOP re-broadcasts Walter Cronkite's 1962 trans-Atlantic television program.