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||1912: Bruno von Freytag-Löringhoff born ... philosopher, mathematician and epistemologist.[1] He was also a university lecturer at the University of Tübingen. During World War II, Freytag-Löringhoff worked as a mathematician in the In 7/VI, that was the signals intelligence agency of the Wehrmacht and worked with Fritz Menzer on the testing of cryptographic devices and procedures. Freytag-Löringhoff worked specifically on the testing of the m-40 cipher machine. His most important contributions to the history of logic and mathematics was his studies and descriptions from 1957, of the calculating machine, built by Wilhelm Schickard. Pic. | ||1912: Bruno von Freytag-Löringhoff born ... philosopher, mathematician and epistemologist.[1] He was also a university lecturer at the University of Tübingen. During World War II, Freytag-Löringhoff worked as a mathematician in the In 7/VI, that was the signals intelligence agency of the Wehrmacht and worked with Fritz Menzer on the testing of cryptographic devices and procedures. Freytag-Löringhoff worked specifically on the testing of the m-40 cipher machine. His most important contributions to the history of logic and mathematics was his studies and descriptions from 1957, of the calculating machine, built by Wilhelm Schickard. Pic. | ||
||1915: Eduard Riecke dies ... experimental physicist. Pic. | ||1915: Eduard Riecke dies ... experimental physicist. Pic. | ||
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||2014: Susan B. Horwitz dies ... computer scientist and academic ... noted for her research on programming languages and software engineering, and in particular on program slicing and dataflow-analysis. Pic search. | ||2014: Susan B. Horwitz dies ... computer scientist and academic ... noted for her research on programming languages and software engineering, and in particular on program slicing and dataflow-analysis. Pic search. | ||
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1644: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli writes in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci: Noi viviamo sommersi nel fondo d'un pelago d'aria ("We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air").
1887: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming marries Clara Ripley.
1915: Mathematician and physicist Nicholas Metropolis born. He will lead the team of researchers which will develop the Monte Carlo method.
1948: The United States Army Signal Corps uses Project Diana antenna to synthesize the chemical precursor to Thefixisin.