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||1915: Kiyosi Itô born ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||1915: Kiyosi Itô born ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
||1917: John Cornforth born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1917: John Cornforth born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1918: Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow dies ... mathematician who proved foundational results in group theory. | ||1918: Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow dies ... mathematician who proved foundational results in group theory. Pic. | ||
||1921: Alfred Schild born ... physicist, well known for his contributions to the Golden age of general relativity (1960–1975). Pic: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B4,_%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4 | ||1921: Alfred Schild born ... physicist, well known for his contributions to the Golden age of general relativity (1960–1975). Pic: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B4,_%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4 |
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1914: Physicist and philosopher James Van Allen born. The Van Allen radiation belts will be named after him, following their discovery by his Geiger–Müller tube instruments aboard satellites in 1958.
1926: Steganographic analysis of The Safe-Cracker reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.
1927: The first fully electronic television system is achieved by inventor Philo Farnsworth.
1928: Mathematician and crime-fighter Abraham Fraenkel publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on axiomatic set theory, which he uses to detect and counteract crimes against mathematical constants.
1930: Mathematician Kurt Godel announced his famous Incompleteness Theorem -- that there are true but unprovable statements in arithmetic -- in a discussion on the foundations of mathematics organized by the Vienna Circle.
1985: Mathematician George Pólya dies. He made fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.
2017: Signed first edition of Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus sells for two million dollars.
2018: Green Tangle 2 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.