Template:Are You Sure/December 26

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September 3, 1975: Vulnerability in Forbidden graph characterization exploited in blackmail scheme by criminal mathematician Anarchimedes.

• ... that polymath Charles Babbage hated street music, and in particular the music of organ grinders, against whom he railed in various venues?
• ... that engineer and crime-fighter Gustave Eiffel developed a Gnomon algorithm function which prevents Shape theft?
• ... that mathematician and physicist Martin David Kruskal invented the Kruskal Count, a magical effect that has been known to perplex professional magicians because (as Kruskal liked to say) it was based not on sleight of hand but on a mathematical phenomenon?