Template:Selected anniversaries/October 1
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1880: First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
1881: Mathematicians Nikola Tesla and Judge Havelock use new class of data transmission protocols to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1994: Mathematician and philosopher Paul Lorenzen dies. He was the founder of the Erlangen School (with Wilhelm Kamlah) and inventor of game semantics (with Kuno Lorenz).
Asclepius Myrmidon publishes On Halting Problems, about the computational and medical problem of determining, from a description of an arbitrary computer program and an input, whether the program will finish running or continue to run forever.