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File:Hugo Gernsback by Bachrach.jpg|link=Hugo Gernsback (nonfiction)|1956: Inventor, writer, editor, and publisher [[Hugo Gernsback (nonfiction)|Hugo Gernsback]] issues a call for entries for his new mathematical journal, ''Gnomon Chronicles Quarterly''.
File:Hugo Gernsback by Bachrach.jpg|link=Hugo Gernsback (nonfiction)|1956: Inventor, writer, editor, and publisher [[Hugo Gernsback (nonfiction)|Hugo Gernsback]] issues a call for entries for his new mathematical journal, ''Gnomon Chronicles Quarterly''.
||1960: Carlo Emilio Bonferroni born ... mathematician who worked on probability theory. Bonferroni is best known for the Bonferroni inequalities (a generalization of the union bound), and for the Bonferroni correction in statistics (which he did not invent but which utilizes his inequalities). Pic.


||1976: Shintaro Uda dies ... inventor, and assistant professor to Hidetsugu Yagi at Tohoku University, where together they invented the Yagi-Uda antenna in 1926. Pic: http://www.ieeecincinnati.org/2011/09/05/september-2011-history/
||1976: Shintaro Uda dies ... inventor, and assistant professor to Hidetsugu Yagi at Tohoku University, where together they invented the Yagi-Uda antenna in 1926. Pic: http://www.ieeecincinnati.org/2011/09/05/september-2011-history/

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  • 1633: Mathematician, physicist, inventor, and Christian crime-fighter Blaise Pascal demonstrates pioneering calculating machine which detects and prevents crimes against physics.

    1633: Mathematician, physicist, inventor, and Christian crime-fighter Blaise Pascal demonstrates pioneering calculating machine which detects and prevents crimes against physics.

  • 1634: Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France. He was the victim of a politically motivated persecution led by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.

    1634: Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France. He was the victim of a politically motivated persecution led by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.

  • 1909: Engineer, sociologist, economist, and crime analyst Vilfredo Pareto publishes new wealth distribution model which uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and locate exotic materials such as Corinthium and Malvoleum.

    1909: Engineer, sociologist, economist, and crime analyst Vilfredo Pareto publishes new wealth distribution model which uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and locate exotic materials such as Corinthium and Malvoleum.

  • 1910: Mathematician Pál Turán born. He will work primarily in number theory, but also contribute to analysis and graph theory.

    1910: Mathematician Pál Turán born. He will work primarily in number theory, but also contribute to analysis and graph theory.

  • 1910: Judge Havelock and Nikola Tesla demonstrate new data transmission protocols which will be useful in predicting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

    1910: Judge Havelock and Nikola Tesla demonstrate new data transmission protocols which will be useful in predicting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1911: Computer scientist Klara Dan von Neumann born. She will be one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.

    1911: Computer scientist Klara Dan von Neumann born. She will be one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.

  • 1956: Inventor, writer, editor, and publisher Hugo Gernsback issues a call for entries for his new mathematical journal, Gnomon Chronicles Quarterly.

    1956: Inventor, writer, editor, and publisher Hugo Gernsback issues a call for entries for his new mathematical journal, Gnomon Chronicles Quarterly.

  • 2016: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.

    2016: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.

  • 2017: Cowries stolen from the Museum of Modern Art in New York by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.

    2017: Cowries stolen from the Museum of Modern Art in New York by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.

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