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||1928: Carl Woese born ... microbiologist and biophysicist. | ||1928: Carl Woese born ... microbiologist and biophysicist. | ||
||1929: Peter H. Schönemann born ... psychometrician and statistical expert. He was professor emeritus in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. His research interests included multivariate statistics, multidimensional scaling and measurement, quantitative behavior genetics, test theory and mathematical tools for social scientists. Schönemann was a persistent critic of what he considered to be scientifically sanctioned racism in psychology. Pic: http://ferris-pages.org/ISAR/schonemann-obit/ | |||
||1930: Stephen Smale born ... American mathematician and computer scientist (Alive Aug. 2018) | ||1930: Stephen Smale born ... American mathematician and computer scientist (Alive Aug. 2018) | ||
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998: Mathematician and astronomer Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī dies. His Almagest was widely read by medieval Arabic astronomers in the centuries after his death.
1188: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1573: Architect Inigo Jones born. He will be one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.
1848: Engineer, sociologist, economist, political scientist, and philosopher Vilfredo Pareto born. He will apply mathematics to economic analysis, asserting that the distribution of incomes and wealth in society is not random and that a consistent pattern appears throughout history, in all parts of the world and in all societies.
1864: Adventurer and alleged time-travelling "Pirate of the Prairies" Wallace War-Heels defeats Baron Zersetzung in single combat.
1865: Mathematician Wilhelm Wirtinger born. He will contribute to complex analysis, geometry, algebra, number theory, Lie groups and knot theory.
1866: Social activist and alleged superhero The Governess chastises math criminals, shames them into returning stolen digits.
2004: Mathematician Derek Taunt dies. He worked as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II.
2013: Computer scientist and academic John T. Riedl dies. He was a founder of the field of recommender systems, social computing, and interactive intelligent user interface systems.