Template:Selected anniversaries/December 3
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1616: Mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis born. He will serve as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
1910: Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
1924: Mathematician and computer scientist John Backus born. He will invent the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation to define formal language syntax.
1965: Mathematician and crime-fighter Edward Lorenz publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which compute and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.