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||1927: Ross Andru born ... American illustrator.
||1927: Ross Andru born ... American illustrator.
||1927: Gart Westerhout born ... astronomer and academic ... Westerhout specialized in studies of radio sources and the Milky Way Galaxy based on observations of radio continuum emissions and 21-cm spectral line radiation that originates in interstellar hydrogen. Pic.


||1929: Traian Lalescu dies ... mathematician. His main focus was on integral equations and he contributed to work in the areas of functional equations, trigonometric series, mathematical physics, geometry, mechanics, algebra, and the history of mathematics. Pic.
||1929: Traian Lalescu dies ... mathematician. His main focus was on integral equations and he contributed to work in the areas of functional equations, trigonometric series, mathematical physics, geometry, mechanics, algebra, and the history of mathematics. Pic.

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  • 763 BC: Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.

    763 BC: Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.

  • 1485 Feb. 1: lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist Johannes Trithemius uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to generate improved solar eclipse forecasts. During the Second World War, this data will be used by German cryptographers to defeat enemy traffic analysis.

    1485 Feb. 1: lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist Johannes Trithemius uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to generate improved solar eclipse forecasts. During the Second World War, this data will be used by German cryptographers to defeat enemy traffic analysis.

  • 1906: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author Gordon Welchman born. During the Second World War, he will develop traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.

    1906: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author Gordon Welchman born. During the Second World War, he will develop traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.

  • 1939: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel helps break German military codes using surf-powered gnomon algorithm techniques.

    1939: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel helps break German military codes using surf-powered gnomon algorithm techniques.

  • 1995: Physicist, inventor, and academic John Vincent Atanasoff dies. He invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.

    1995: Physicist, inventor, and academic John Vincent Atanasoff dies. He invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.

  • 2016: Steganographic analysis of Traveller reveals "several hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.

    2016: Steganographic analysis of Traveller reveals "several hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.

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