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||1875 – Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist and conchologist (b. 1795) | ||1875 – Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist and conchologist (b. 1795) | ||
||John Edensor Littlewood FRS LLD (b. 9 June 1885) was an English mathematician, best known for his achievements in analysis, number theory, and differential equations and for his long collaboration with G. H. Hardy. | |||
||1906 – Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and businessman, founded Repository for Germinal Choice (d. 1997) | ||1906 – Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and businessman, founded Repository for Germinal Choice (d. 1997) | ||
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1861: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem born. He will write: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."
1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new theory of sets derived from Gnomon algorithm functions. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants."
1950: Dalton Trumbo photographed by authorities.