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||1936: Yvette Amice born ... mathematician whose research concerned number theory and p-adic analysis. Pic: http://johnbcosgrave.com/archive/oxford.htm.
||1936: Yvette Amice born ... mathematician whose research concerned number theory and p-adic analysis. Pic: http://johnbcosgrave.com/archive/oxford.htm.
File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1943: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] uses punched card computation to forecast the position of [[German submarine U-505 (nonfiction)|German submarine U-505]] a year in advance, giving the U.S. Navy a strategic advantage in the Second World War.


File:German submarine U-505 shortly after capture.jpg|link=German submarine U-505 (nonfiction)|1944: World War Two: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the [[German submarine U-505 (nonfiction)|German submarine U-505]]: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
File:German submarine U-505 shortly after capture.jpg|link=German submarine U-505 (nonfiction)|1944: World War Two: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the [[German submarine U-505 (nonfiction)|German submarine U-505]]: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
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||2015: Leonid Plyushch dies ... mathematician, academic, dissident. Pic.
||2015: Leonid Plyushch dies ... mathematician, academic, dissident. Pic.
File:Red Spiral 3.jpg|link=Red Spiral 3 (nonfiction)|2017: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Red Spiral 3 (nonfiction)|Red Spiral 3]]'' accidentally releases the notorious criminal mathematical function [[Gnotilus]].


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