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||1915: Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik born ... mathematician active in number theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics. Pic.
||1915: Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik born ... mathematician active in number theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics. Pic.
||1917: Mathematician and academic Leonard E. "Len" Gillman born. He and Nathan Fine defined remote points and showed that if the continuum hypothesis holds, then the real line (or any separable Tychonoff space that is not pseudocompact) has remote points. Pic: https://www.maa.org/about-maa/governance/maa-presidents/leonard-gillman-1987-1988-maa-president


||1918: William Edwin Gordon born ... physicist and astronomer. He is referred to as the "father of the Arecibo Observatory". Pic.
||1918: William Edwin Gordon born ... physicist and astronomer. He is referred to as the "father of the Arecibo Observatory". Pic.

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