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||Werner Wolfgang Rogosinski FRS (d. 23 July 1964) was a German (later British) mathematician. His interest was analytical problems, especially in series. His dissertation, "New Application of Pfeiffer's method for Dirichlet's divisor problem", caused a stir in 1922. Pic. | ||Werner Wolfgang Rogosinski FRS (d. 23 July 1964) was a German (later British) mathematician. His interest was analytical problems, especially in series. His dissertation, "New Application of Pfeiffer's method for Dirichlet's divisor problem", caused a stir in 1922. Pic. | ||
||Samarendra Nath Roy (d. 23 July 1964) was an Indian-born American mathematician and an applied statistician. Pic. | |||
||1968 – Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875) | ||1968 – Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875) | ||
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1829: William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
1885: The well-known illustration Interview with Wallace War-Heels is stolen by math criminals, who demand computational ransom.
1934: Mathematician and crime-fighter Hans Hahn publishes new analysis of set theory which soons finds application in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1928: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin born. She will discover the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.
1962: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta uses Telstar to communicate with AESOP.
1962: Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
2017: AESOP re-broadcasts Walter Cronkite's 1962 trans-Atlantic television program.