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File:Werner Heisenberg.jpg|link=Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|1933: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|Werner Heisenberg]] uses the [[Uncertainty principle (nonfiction)|uncertainty principle]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Werner Heisenberg.jpg|link=Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|1933: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|Werner Heisenberg]] uses the [[Uncertainty principle (nonfiction)|uncertainty principle]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1934: Duncan MacLaren Young Sommerville dies ... mathematician and astronomer. He compiled a bibliography on non-Euclidean geometry and also wrote a leading textbook in that field. He also wrote Introduction to the Geometry of N Dimensions, advancing the study of polytopes. Pic. | |||
||1937: Anatoly Alexeevitch Karatsuba born ... mathematician working in the field of analytic number theory, p-adic numbers and Dirichlet series. The Karatsuba algorithm is the earliest known divide and conquer algorithm for multiplication and lives on as a special case of its direct generalization, the Toom–Cook algorithm. Pic. | ||1937: Anatoly Alexeevitch Karatsuba born ... mathematician working in the field of analytic number theory, p-adic numbers and Dirichlet series. The Karatsuba algorithm is the earliest known divide and conquer algorithm for multiplication and lives on as a special case of its direct generalization, the Toom–Cook algorithm. Pic. | ||
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||1990: Rashad Khalifa dies ... biochemist and academic. | ||1990: Rashad Khalifa dies ... biochemist and academic. | ||
File:Gil Kane.jpg|link=Gil Kane (nonfiction)|2001: American comic book artist [[Gil Kane (nonfiction)|Gil Kane]] dies. | File:Gil Kane.jpg|link=Gil Kane (nonfiction)|2001: American comic book artist [[Gil Kane (nonfiction)|Gil Kane]] dies. | ||
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1632: Clockmaker and mathematician Jost Bürgi dies. He was recognized during his own lifetime as one of the most excellent mechanical engineers of his generation.
1638: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1933: Physicist and crime-fighter Werner Heisenberg uses the uncertainty principle to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1971: The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit.
2001: American comic book artist Gil Kane dies.
2002: Anarchimedes uses Gnomon algorithm to commit crimes against mathematical constants.
2008: Talk show host Dick Cavett attends the 2008 Amfar Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Creature unexpectedly generates cryptographic numina.
