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||1909: Homi J. Bhabha born ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||1909: Homi J. Bhabha born ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1920: Naum Yakovlevich Vilenkin born ... mathematician, an expert in combinatorics. He is best known as the author of many books in recreational mathematics aimed at middle and high school students. Pic: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/944039.N_Ya_Vilenkin | ||1920: Naum Yakovlevich Vilenkin born ... mathematician, an expert in combinatorics. He is best known as the author of many books in recreational mathematics aimed at middle and high school students. Pic: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/944039.N_Ya_Vilenkin | ||
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1626: Astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius dies. In 1615 he conducted a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.
1878: Electrical engineer and inventor Arthur Scherbius born. He will invent and patent the famous mechanical cipher Enigma machine.
1925: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
2008: Mathematician, social activist, and crime-fighter Irving Adler publishes evidence that high-level crimes against mathematical constants have been covered up by the government for decades.
2009: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss dies. His work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.
2016: Signed first edition of Blue Green Blossom used in high-energy literature experiment develops artificial intelligence, demands copyright autonomy.