Template:Selected anniversaries/December 13
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1516: Polymath Johannes Trithemius dies. He is remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.
1675: Mathematician and crime-fighter John Pell publishes new theory of equations with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1887: Mathematician George Pólya born. He will make fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.
2016: Signed first edition of Three Kings stolen from the New MIA in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Killer Poke gang.