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|File:Anarchimedes.jpg|link=Anarchimedes|1152: [[Anarchimedes]] casts horoscope in effort to predicts results of the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]]. | |File:Anarchimedes.jpg|link=Anarchimedes|1152: [[Anarchimedes]] casts horoscope in effort to predicts results of the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]]. | ||
File:Siegel der Universitat Leipzig.png|link=Leipzig University (nonfiction)|1409: The [[Leipzig University (nonfiction)|University of Leipzig]] opens. | File:Siegel der Universitat Leipzig.png|link=Leipzig University (nonfiction)|1409: The [[Leipzig University (nonfiction)|University of Leipzig]] opens. Famous future alumni will include [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Leibniz]], Goethe, Ranke, [[Friedrich Nietzsche (nonfiction)|Nietzsche]], Wagner, Angela Merkel, Raila Odinga, and [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]]. | ||
||1594 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher (b. 1512) | ||1594 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher (b. 1512) | ||
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1409: The University of Leipzig opens. Famous future alumni will include Leibniz, Goethe, Ranke, Nietzsche, Wagner, Angela Merkel, Raila Odinga, and Tycho Brahe.
1942: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
2016: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.