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||1956: Heinrich Scholz dies ... logician, philosopher, and Protestant theologian. Pic. | ||1956: Heinrich Scholz dies ... logician, philosopher, and Protestant theologian. Pic. | ||
||1958: Criticality accident occurred on December 30, 1958, at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, in the United States. The accident involved plutonium compounds dissolved in liquid chemical reagents; within 35 hours, it killed chemical operator Cecil Kelley by severe radiation poisoning. | |||
||1965: Statistician and academic Evelyn Fix dies ... She and Joseph Hodges, Jr. will publish a groundbreaking paper, "Discriminatory Analysis. Nonparametric Discrimination: Consistency Properties," which defines the nearest neighbor rule, an important method which will later become a key piece of machine learning technologies, the k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) algorithm. Pic: https://statistics.berkeley.edu/history/biographies/evelyn-fix | ||1965: Statistician and academic Evelyn Fix dies ... She and Joseph Hodges, Jr. will publish a groundbreaking paper, "Discriminatory Analysis. Nonparametric Discrimination: Consistency Properties," which defines the nearest neighbor rule, an important method which will later become a key piece of machine learning technologies, the k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) algorithm. Pic: https://statistics.berkeley.edu/history/biographies/evelyn-fix | ||
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1563: Mathematician, fencer, and APTO field engineer Ludolph van Ceulen publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1695: Academic, diplomat, spy, inventor and mathematician Samuel Morland dies. Morland contributed to early developments in computing, hydraulics, and steam power.
1842: Osman Hamdi Bey born. He will be an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.
1876: Mathematician Thomas Joannes Stieltjes uses continued fraction theory to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1892: Mathematician Pekka Myrberg born. He will do fundamental work on the iteration of rational functions (especially quadratic functions), developing the concept of period-doubling. Myrberg's research will revive interest in the results of Gaston Julia and Pierre Fatou.
1916: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin dies.
1947: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead dies. He was a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.
1947: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren dies. He was one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.
1954: Tunguska Event Preservation Society pledge drive day.
2013: Mathematician and academic Paul Sally dies. He was known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago".
2016: Eye Foot is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.