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|File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2015: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]]. | |File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2015: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]]. | ||
File:Pin Man.jpg|link=Pin Man|2016: Steganographic analysis of [[Pin Man]] illustration reveals "several hundred gigabytes of encrypted data related to the [[Carnevale Tenebre]] program." | |File:Pin Man.jpg|link=Pin Man|2016: Steganographic analysis of [[Pin Man]] illustration reveals "several hundred gigabytes of encrypted data related to the [[Carnevale Tenebre]] program." | ||
||2017 – Mildred Dresselhaus, American physicist (b. 1930) | ||2017 – Mildred Dresselhaus, American physicist (b. 1930) | ||
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1771: Geophysicist, astronomer, and biologist Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan dies. His observations and experiments inspired the beginning of what is now known as the study of biological circadian rhythms.
1772: Astronomer, mathematician, and crime-fighter Nicole-Reine Lepaute publishes new set of star charts using Gnomon algorithm functions which give unprecedented accuracy in the measurement of crimes against mathematical constants.
1788: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi dies. She was one of the key figures in introducing Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy to Italy.
1958: Project SCORE satellite equipped with Gnomon algorithm control system.
1972: Physicist and academic Maria Goeppert-Mayer dies. She developed a mathematical model for the structure of nuclear shells, for which she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963, which she shared with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Wigner.
1986: The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years.
1987: New class of Fantasy Voronoi diagrams uses Gnomon algorithm to compute record-breaking profits.