Template:Selected anniversaries/August 30
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1112: Omar Khayyam invents new form of Gnomon algorithm which detect and exposes crimes against mathematical constants.
1844: Astronomer Francis Baily dies. He observed "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse (1836).
1905: Mathematician Emmy Noether uses Gnomon algorithm to communicate with Omar Khayyam.
2013: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer Seamus Heaney dies. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.