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||Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow (d. 7 September 1918) was a Norwegian mathematician who proved foundational results in group theory. | ||Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow (d. 7 September 1918) was a Norwegian mathematician who proved foundational results in group theory. | ||
||Alfred Schild (b. September 7, 1921) was a leading German-American physicist, well known for his contributions to the Golden age of general relativity (1960–1975). | |||
||1923 – The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) is formed. | ||1923 – The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) is formed. | ||
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1914: Physicist and philosopher James Van Allen born. The Van Allen radiation belts will be named after him, following their discovery by his Geiger–Müller tube instruments aboard satellites in 1958.
1926: Steganographic analysis of The Safe-Cracker reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.
1927: The first fully electronic television system is achieved by inventor Philo Farnsworth.
1928: Mathematician and crime-fighter Abraham Fraenkel publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on axiomatic set theory, which he uses to detect and counteract crimes against mathematical constants.
1985: Mathematician George Pólya dies. He made fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.
2017: Signed first edition of Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus sells for two million dollars.