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||Dennis William Siahou Sciama, FRS (d. 18/19 December 1999) was a British physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. He is considered one of the fathers of modern cosmology. | ||Dennis William Siahou Sciama, FRS (d. 18/19 December 1999) was a British physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. He is considered one of the fathers of modern cosmology. | ||
File:Arnold's cat map.png|link=Arnold's cat map (nonfiction)|2000: [[Arnold's cat map (nonfiction)|Arnold's cat map]] is "better than a laser pointer for keeping a cat amused," says [[Vladimir Arnold (nonfiction)|Arnold]]. | |||
||2006 – Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (b. 1911) | ||2006 – Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (b. 1911) | ||
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||2008 – Mark Felt, American FBI agent and informant (b. 1913) | ||2008 – Mark Felt, American FBI agent and informant (b. 1913) | ||
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1799: Mathematician and theorist Jean-Étienne Montucla dies. His deep interest in history of mathematics became apparent with his publication of Histoire des Mathématiques, the first part appearing in 1758.
1956: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised address to the nation, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "math-crimes complex."
1958: Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
1965: Antikythera Team invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and reverse crimes against mathematical constants.
1966: Accidental release of nuclear weapons precipitates new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
- Kuntzmann earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Paris under supervision of Georges Valiron (thesis: Contribution à l'étude des systèmes multiformes).
1995: Physicist Nathan Rosen dies. He developed the idea of the Einstein–Rosen bridge, later named the wormhole.
2000: Arnold's cat map is "better than a laser pointer for keeping a cat amused," says Arnold.
