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||William Edward Ayrton, FRS (d. 8 November 1908) was an English physicist and electrical engineer. | ||William Edward Ayrton, FRS (d. 8 November 1908) was an English physicist and electrical engineer. | ||
||George Bernard Dantzig (b. November 8, 1914) was an American mathematical scientist who made important contributions to operations research, computer science, economics, and statistics. Dantzig is known for his development of the simplex algorithm,[1] an algorithm for solving linear programming problems. Pic. | |||
||1918 – Hermann Zapf, German typographer and calligrapher (d. 2015) | ||1918 – Hermann Zapf, German typographer and calligrapher (d. 2015) | ||
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1703: Mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis dies. He served as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
1839: Birth of Ivan Goremykin heralds new age of Extreme Moustaches.
1848: Mathematician, logician, and philosopher Gottlob Frege born. Though will be largely ignored during his lifetime, his work will influence later generations of logicians and philosophers.
1895: While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
1969: Astronomer Vesto Melvin Slipher dies. He performed the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe.
1974: Green Ring tells Dick Cavett a funny story about Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography.