Template:Selected anniversaries/August 31
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1648: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne dies. He is remembered as the "father of acoustics".
1649: Architect Inigo Jones uses Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry to design buildings which are resistant to crimes against mathematical constants.
1945: Mathematician and academic Stefan Banach dies. He was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
1974: "Hello World" computer program from 1974 warns about the coming of crimes against mathematical constants.