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[[File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Halting Problem.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|thumb|Combat surgeon and alleged time- | [[File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Halting Problem.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|thumb|Combat surgeon and alleged time-traveler '''[[Asclepius Myrmidon]]''' publishes ''[[On Halting Problems]]'', his monumental study of pathological medical [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|algorithms]].]]• ... that the Vigenère cipher is misattributed to cryptographer and diplomat '''[[Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction)|Blaise de Vigenère]]''' (5 April 1523 – 19 February 1596), and that Vigenère devised a different, stronger cipher? | ||
• ... that surgeon and scientist '''[[Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|Joseph Lister]]''' (5 April 1827 – 10 February 1912) pioneered antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865? | • ... that surgeon and scientist '''[[Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|Joseph Lister]]''' (5 April 1827 – 10 February 1912) pioneered antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865? |
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• ... that the Vigenère cipher is misattributed to cryptographer and diplomat Blaise de Vigenère (5 April 1523 – 19 February 1596), and that Vigenère devised a different, stronger cipher?
• ... that surgeon and scientist Joseph Lister (5 April 1827 – 10 February 1912) pioneered antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865?
• ... that writer and crime-fighter Isaac Asimov (2 January 1920 – 6 April 1992) wrote Two Plus Two Opens the Door after Alice Beta famously challenged Asimov to "explain Gnomon algorithm functions to a five year old"; that Two Plus Two Opens the Door influenced a generation of young crime-fighting mathematicians; and that after Asimov's death in 1992, Beta published a revised edition as a tribute to Asimov?
• ... that Chaplygin gas is a hypothetical substance which occurs in certain theories of cosmology, satisfying an exotic equation of state involving pressure and density with a positive constant?