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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.

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 ||1916: William Ramsay dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
-||1920: Ray William Clough born.  Clough was a pioneer of the finite element method (FEM). He coined the term "finite elements" in an article in 1960.  Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=ray+william+clough
+||1920: Mathematician, engineer, and academic Ray William Clough born.  Clough was a pioneer of the finite element method (FEM). He coined the term "finite elements" in an article in 1960.  Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=ray+william+clough
 File:Hans Hahn.jpg|link=Hans Hahn (nonfiction)|1934: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Hans Hahn (nonfiction)|Hans Hahn]] publishes new analysis of set theory which soons finds application in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].