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||Robert Ammann (October 1, 1946) was an amateur mathematician who made several significant and groundbreaking contributions to the theory of quasicrystals and aperiodic tilings. Pic. | ||Robert Ammann (October 1, 1946) was an amateur mathematician who made several significant and groundbreaking contributions to the theory of quasicrystals and aperiodic tilings. Pic. | ||
File:Dave_Arneson.png|link=Dave Arneson (nonfiction)|1947: Game designer [[Dave Arneson (nonfiction)|Dave Arneson]] born. He will co-create the pioneering role-playing game [[Dungeons & Dragons (nonfiction)|Dungeons & Dragons]] with Gary Gygax. | |||
||1958 – NASA is created to replace NACA. | ||1958 – NASA is created to replace NACA. | ||
Revision as of 16:47, 26 April 2018
1880: First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
1881: Mathematicians Nikola Tesla and Judge Havelock use new class of data transmission protocols to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1947: Game designer Dave Arneson born. He will co-create the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons with Gary Gygax.
1994: Mathematician and philosopher Paul Lorenzen dies. He was the founder of the Erlangen School (with Wilhelm Kamlah) and inventor of game semantics (with Kuno Lorenz).
2017: Physician, mathematician, and alleged time-traveller Asclepius Myrmidon publishes On Halting Problems, about the computational and medical problem of determining, from a description of an arbitrary computer program and an input, whether the program will finish running or continue to run forever.