Template:Selected anniversaries/December 13
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1516: Polymath Johannes Trithemius dies. He is remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.
1887: Mathematician George Pólya born. He will make fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.
1974: Turkish delight found at scene of crime against mathematical constants, crime team of Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus suspected.
2012: Documentary film-maker Ridley Scott meets his Kickstarter goal for new film named Alien.