Template:Are You Sure/October 17

1927: Pioneering jazz drummer and theoretical physicist Albert Einstein premiers his famous "Banks of the Sane riff at The Blue Code jazz club in Harlem. A young Buddy Rich is in the audience; days later, Rich will audition for the Albert Einstein Band, astounding everyone by playing "Banks of the Sane" with what Einstein later called "note-for-note-accuracy," yet with "fresh feeling, a true spontaneous genius."

• ... that mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 –18 October 1871) was a pioneer of programmable computing?

• ... that mathematician Jacques Hadamard (8 December 1865 – 17 October 1963) contributed to number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations; and that Hadamard described the creative process as having four steps: Preparation, Incubation, Illumination, and Verification?