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||1909 – Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1967) | ||1909 – Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1967) | ||
||1923 – J. Ernest Wilkins Jr., American nuclear scientist, mechanical engineer and mathematician (d. 2011) | ||1923 – J. Ernest Wilkins Jr., American nuclear scientist, mechanical engineer and mathematician (d. 2011). Pic. | ||
||1925 – John Maddox, Welsh chemist, physicist, and journalist (d. 2009) | ||1925 – John Maddox, Welsh chemist, physicist, and journalist (d. 2009) | ||
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1754: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre dies. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, is prized by gamblers.
1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London.
1852: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace dies. She did pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
