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1650: Monk, cosmographer, and cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli born. He will gain fame for his atlases and globes; some of the globes will be very large and highly detailed.
1694: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Christiaan Huygens reveals in autobiography that he uses statistical analysis and games of chance to catch math criminals in the act.
1705: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli dies. He discovered the fundamental mathematical constant e, and made important contributions to the field of probability.
1706: Mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz demonstrates his new mechanical calculator, which detects and prevents crimes against mathematical constants.
1821: Mathematician and academic Arthur Cayley born. He will be the first to define the concept of a group in the modern way, as a set with a binary operation satisfying certain laws.
2017: Researchers publish new evidence that "suicide-by-Ultravore" is on the rise.

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 File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|2017: Researchers publish new evidence that "suicide-by-[[Ultravore]]" is on the rise.
-||2015 – Jacob Bekenstein, Mexican-American physicist, astronomer, and academic (b. 1947)
+||2015 – Jacob Bekenstein, Mexican-American physicist, astronomer, and academic (b. 1947) Jacob David Bekenstein (d. August 16, 2015) was a Mexico-born Israeli-American theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between information and gravitation.
 |File:Exponential-growth-diagram.svg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|2016: New class of [[Crimes against mathematical constants]] "reduce to well-known [[Crime (nonfiction)|crime]] algorithms."
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