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||1980: Elizebeth Smith Friedman dies ... cryptanalyst and author, and pioneer in U.S. cryptography. She has been called "America's first female cryptanalyst". Pic. | ||1980: Elizebeth Smith Friedman dies ... cryptanalyst and author, and pioneer in U.S. cryptography. She has been called "America's first female cryptanalyst". Pic. | ||
||1986: Robert S. Mulliken dies ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1986: Robert S. Mulliken dies ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1987: Raj Chandra Bose dies ... mathematician and statistician best known for his work in design theory, finite geometry and the theory of error-correcting codes in which the class of BCH codes is partly named after him. He also invented the notions of partial geometry, strongly regular graph and started a systematic study of difference sets to construct symmetric block designs. Pic. | ||1987: Raj Chandra Bose dies ... mathematician and statistician best known for his work in design theory, finite geometry and the theory of error-correcting codes in which the class of BCH codes is partly named after him. He also invented the notions of partial geometry, strongly regular graph and started a systematic study of difference sets to construct symmetric block designs. Pic. | ||
||1988: George | ||1988: George Uhlenbeck dies ... theoretical physicist. Pic. | ||
||1988: Theodor Schneider dies ... mathematician, best known for providing proof of what is now known as the Gelfond–Schneider theorem. Schneider studied from 1929 to 34 in Frankfurt; he solved Hilbert's 7th problem in his PhD thesis, which then came to be known as the Gelfond–Schneider theorem. Pic. | ||1988: Theodor Schneider dies ... mathematician, best known for providing proof of what is now known as the Gelfond–Schneider theorem. Schneider studied from 1929 to 34 in Frankfurt; he solved Hilbert's 7th problem in his PhD thesis, which then came to be known as the Gelfond–Schneider theorem. Pic. | ||
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1815: Mathematician and academic Karl Weierstrass born. He will be cited as the "father of modern analysis".
1847: Physicist and electrical engineer Galileo Ferraris born. He will be a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor.
2017: Steganographic analysis of The Eel Escapes Hydrolab reveals fifteen terabytes of encrypted data.
2018: Creature declared Image of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
