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File:August Ferdinand Möbius.jpg|link=August Ferdinand Möbius (nonfiction)|1790: Mathematician and astronomer [[August Ferdinand Möbius (nonfiction)|August Ferdinand Möbius]] born. He will discover the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space. | File:August Ferdinand Möbius.jpg|link=August Ferdinand Möbius (nonfiction)|1790: Mathematician and astronomer [[August Ferdinand Möbius (nonfiction)|August Ferdinand Möbius]] born. He will discover the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space. | ||
||1749: Nicolas Appert born ... chef, invented canning. | ||1749: Nicolas Appert born ... chef, invented canning. Pic. | ||
||1776: James Ferguson dies ... astronomer and instrument maker. Pic. | ||1776: James Ferguson dies ... astronomer and instrument maker. Pic. | ||
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File:H. H. Holmes.jpg|link=H. H. Holmes (nonfiction)|1894: [[H. H. Holmes (nonfiction)|H. H. Holmes]], one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts. | File:H. H. Holmes.jpg|link=H. H. Holmes (nonfiction)|1894: [[H. H. Holmes (nonfiction)|H. H. Holmes]], one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts. | ||
||1902: Eugene Wigner born ... physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1902: Eugene Wigner born ... physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1917: Ruth Aaronson Bari born ... mathematician known for her work in graph theory and algebraic homomorphisms. Pic. | ||1917: Ruth Aaronson Bari born ... mathematician known for her work in graph theory and algebraic homomorphisms. Pic. | ||
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File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1929: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] dies. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing. | File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1929: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] dies. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing. | ||
||1940: Eric Gill dies ... sculptor and typeface designer ... erotica, incest. | ||1940: Eric Gill dies ... sculptor and typeface designer ... erotica, incest. Pic. | ||
||1940: Raymond Pearl dies ... biologist and academic ... eugenics, biostatistics. | ||1940: Raymond Pearl dies ... biologist and academic ... eugenics, biostatistics. Pic. | ||
||1947: Emil Racoviță dies ... biologist, zoologist, speleologist, academic, explorer of Antarctica and the first biologist study arctic life. Pic. | ||1947: Emil Racoviță dies ... biologist, zoologist, speleologist, academic, explorer of Antarctica and the first biologist study arctic life. Pic. | ||
||1947: American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century. | ||1947: American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century. Pics. | ||
File:Aleksandr Khinchin.gif|link=Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|1949: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|Aleksandr Khinchin]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on modern probability theory which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Aleksandr Khinchin.gif|link=Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|1949: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|Aleksandr Khinchin]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on modern probability theory which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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File:Robert Hofstadter.jpg|link=Robert Hofstadter (nonfiction)|1990: Physicist and academic [[Robert Hofstadter (nonfiction)|Robert Hofstadter]] dies. He shared the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with [[Rudolf Mössbauer (nonfiction)|Rudolf Mössbauer]]) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons". | File:Robert Hofstadter.jpg|link=Robert Hofstadter (nonfiction)|1990: Physicist and academic [[Robert Hofstadter (nonfiction)|Robert Hofstadter]] dies. He shared the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with [[Rudolf Mössbauer (nonfiction)|Rudolf Mössbauer]]) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons". | ||
||2000: Louis Néel dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||2000: Louis Néel dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||2015: Irma M. Wyman dies ... early computer engineer and the first woman to become vice president of Honeywell, Inc. She was a systems thinking tutor and was the first female CIO of Honeywell. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Irma+Wyman | ||2015: Irma M. Wyman dies ... early computer engineer and the first woman to become vice president of Honeywell, Inc. She was a systems thinking tutor and was the first female CIO of Honeywell. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Irma+Wyman | ||
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1790: Mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius born. He will discover the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space.
1894: John Venn invents new Demon-hunting diagram, leading to arrest of serial killer H. H. Holmes.
1894: H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.
1924: Information scientist Claire Kelly Schultz born.
1925: Mathematician and social activist Alice Beta interviews famed inventor and data processing pioneer Herman Hollerith.
1929: Inventor Herman Hollerith dies. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing.
1949: Mathematician and crime-fighter Aleksandr Khinchin publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on modern probability theory which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1972: Industrialist, military contractor, and alleged crime boss Colonel Zersetzung privately advises Richard Nixon to "tell the reporters that you are not a crook."
1973: Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
1973: In Washington, D.C., musician and alleged math criminal Skip Digits tells 400 Associated Press managing editors that "Richard Nixon is not a crook."
1990: Physicist and academic Robert Hofstadter dies. He shared the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Rudolf Mössbauer) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons".
2018: Signed first edition of Green Tangle 4 used in high-energy literature experiments spontaneously generates artificial intelligence.