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||Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III (d. 2000) was an American mathematician, natural philosopher, and historian of science. | ||Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III (d. 2000) was an American mathematician, natural philosopher, and historian of science. | ||
||2001 | File:Jacques-Louis Lions.jpg|link=Jacques-Louis Lions (nonfiction)|2001: Mathematician [[Jacques-Louis Lions (nonfiction)|Jacques-Louis Lions]] dies. He made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control. | ||
||2014 – Gerald Edelman, American biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1929) | ||2014 – Gerald Edelman, American biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1929) | ||
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1765: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist Alexis Clairaut dies. His work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687.
1854: Scientist and inventor Johann Philipp Reis uses Gnomon algorithm functions to prevent outbreak of Kingpin inclination.
1902: Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
1973: Watergate scandal (nonfiction): Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
2001: Mathematician Jacques-Louis Lions dies. He made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control.
2016: Math criminal Anarchimedes plans to steal, restore, and weaponize the Antikythera mechanism, warn crime analysts.