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||1920: John Maynard Smith born ... theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Maynard Smith was instrumental in the application of game theory to evolution and theorised on other problems such as the evolution of sex and signalling theory. Pic. | ||1920: John Maynard Smith born ... theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Maynard Smith was instrumental in the application of game theory to evolution and theorised on other problems such as the evolution of sex and signalling theory. Pic. | ||
||1920: Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen dies ... mathematician. He is known for work on the enumerative geometry of conic sections, algebraic surfaces, and history of mathematics. | ||1920: Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen dies ... mathematician. He is known for work on the enumerative geometry of conic sections, algebraic surfaces, and history of mathematics. Pic. | ||
||1921: Marianne Grunberg-Manago born ... biochemist and academic. | ||1921: Marianne Grunberg-Manago born ... biochemist and academic. Her work helped make possible key discoveries about the nature of the genetic code. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Marianne+Grunberg-Manago | ||
||1921: Felix Villars born ... professor of physics at MIT. He is best known for the Pauli–Villars regularization, an important principle in quantum field theory Pic: http://news.mit.edu/2002/villars | ||1921: Felix Villars born ... professor of physics at MIT. He is best known for the Pauli–Villars regularization, an important principle in quantum field theory Pic: http://news.mit.edu/2002/villars | ||
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1561: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
1655: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant e, and make important contributions to the field of probability.
1918: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor dies. He invented set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.
1931: Inventor Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.
2016: Violet Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.