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||1970: Rollo Davidson dies in a mountaineering accident ... probabilist, alpinist, and Fellow-elect of Churchill College, Cambridge, who died aged 25 on Piz Bernina. He is known for his work on semigroups, stochastic geometry, and stochastic analysis,[1] and for the Rollo Davidson Prize, given in his name to young probabilists. Pic: http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/Rollo/ | ||1970: Rollo Davidson dies in a mountaineering accident ... probabilist, alpinist, and Fellow-elect of Churchill College, Cambridge, who died aged 25 on Piz Bernina. He is known for his work on semigroups, stochastic geometry, and stochastic analysis,[1] and for the Rollo Davidson Prize, given in his name to young probabilists. Pic: http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/Rollo/ | ||
||1976: Mickey Cohen dies ... mob boss. Pic. | |||
File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|1976: ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says actor-cryptographer [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|Niles Cartouchian]]. | File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|1976: ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says actor-cryptographer [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|Niles Cartouchian]]. | ||
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||2008: Bruce Edward Ivins dies ... scientist and bio-defense researcher. Pic. | ||2008: Bruce Edward Ivins dies ... scientist and bio-defense researcher. Pic. | ||
||2010: Nicolae Popescu dies ... mathematician and Emeritus Professor. Pic search | ||2010: Nicolae Popescu dies ... mathematician and Emeritus Professor. Pic search. | ||
File:Tractor.jpg|link=Tractor (nonfiction)|2015: ''[[Tractor (nonfiction)|Tractor]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | File:Tractor.jpg|link=Tractor (nonfiction)|2015: ''[[Tractor (nonfiction)|Tractor]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | ||
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1781: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies dies. He was one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and dedicated two of his works to the Englishman.
1840: Mathematician and crime-fighter George Boole develops new system of symbolic logic which assists mathematicians in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1932: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
1976: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says actor-cryptographer Niles Cartouchian.
1996: Mathematician and Doctor of Medicine Marcel-Paul Schützenberger dies. Schützenberger contributed to the fields of formal language, combinatorics, and information theory.
2015: Tractor voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
