Template:Selected anniversaries/May 11
1109: Omar Khayyam vows to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1903: The short film Electrocuting an Elephant blamed for wave of Wumpus-compass syndrome.
1904: Mathematician Emmy Noether discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1918: Theoretical physicist and academic Richard Feynman born. He will share the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics.
1947: New class of Crimes against mathematical constants "reduce to well-known crime algorithms."
1881 – Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (d. 1963)
1924 – Eugene Dynkin, Russian-American mathematician and theorist (d. 2014)
1610 – Matteo Ricci, Italian priest and mathematician (b. 1552)
1871 – John Herschel, English mathematician, astronomer, and chemist (b. 1792)
868 – A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book.
1972 – The United States performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site, which was part of the series Operation Grommet and Operation Toggle.
1997 – Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
1998 – India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran to include a thermonuclear device.