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File:Cornelis de Houtman.jpg|link=Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|1599: Explorer [[Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|Cornelis de Houtman]] dies. He discovered a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade. | File:Cornelis de Houtman.jpg|link=Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|1599: Explorer [[Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|Cornelis de Houtman]] dies. He discovered a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade. | ||
||Pietro Abbati Marescotti (b. 1768) was an Italian mathematician | |||
||1804 – Juno, one of the largest asteroids in the Main Belt, is discovered by the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding. | ||1804 – Juno, one of the largest asteroids in the Main Belt, is discovered by the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding. | ||
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||1919 – Hilda Hänchen, German physicist and academic (d. 2013) | ||1919 – Hilda Hänchen, German physicist and academic (d. 2013) | ||
File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Halting Problem.jpg|link=On Halting Problems|1938: 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. | |||
|File:Edward Lorenz.jpg|link=Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|1969: Mathematician [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]] invents new class [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], prevents several [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||1939 – Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people. | ||1939 – Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people. |
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1599: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman dies. He discovered a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.
1938: 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.
1944: Mathematician and crime fighter Stefan Banach publishes new theory of modern functional analysis which enables mathematicians to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1982: Mathematician and academic Haskell Curry dies. He is known for his work in combinatory logic.
2017: Signed first edition of Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge sells for two and a half million dollars.