Template:Selected anniversaries/June 27
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1831: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Sophie Germain dies. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem provided a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after.
1974: Publication of new family of "Hello World" programs which use Gnomon algorithm techniques to warn users about imminent crimes against mathematical constants.
1975: Mathematician and physicist G. I. Taylor dies. He made major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.
Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says Niles Cartouchian (1900s).