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||1889: Charles Leroux dies ... balloonist and skydiver. | ||1889: Charles Leroux dies ... balloonist and skydiver. | ||
||William Frederick Friedman | ||1891: William Frederick Friedman born ... US Army cryptographer who ran the research division of the Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s, and parts of its follow-on services into the 1950s. | ||
||Werner Wolfgang Rogosinski | ||1894: Werner Wolfgang Rogosinski born ... 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. | ||
||1898 | ||1898: Howard Florey born ... pharmacologist and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1898 | ||1898: Charlotte Moore Sitterly born ... astronomer ... no pic | ||
||1900: Ham Fisher born ... cartoonist. | ||1900: Ham Fisher born ... cartoonist. | ||
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||2015: Peter P. Sorokin dies ... physicist and co-inventor of the dye laser. Pic. | ||2015: Peter P. Sorokin dies ... physicist and co-inventor of the dye laser. Pic. | ||
File:Spiral 2.jpg|link=Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|Spiral 2]]'' voted Picture of the day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | |||
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1501: Gerolamo Cardano born. He will be one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance.
1624: Renaissance-era mechanical soldier Clock Head uses Gnomon algorithm functions to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1625: Mathematician and politician Johan de Witt born. He will derive the basic properties of quadratic forms, an important step in the field of linear algebra.
1934: Writer and peace activist John Brunner born.
1937: Alice Beta Paragliding published. Many experts believe that the illustration depicts Beta infiltrating the ENIAC program.
1938: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann dies. He proved that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant.
1999: Writer, editor, and actor George Plimpton publishes his account of personally committing math crimes "for the participatory journalistic experience."
2016: Spiral 2 voted Picture of the day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.