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File:Joseph Wedderburn.jpg|link=Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|1948: Mathematician [[Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|Joseph Wedderburn]] dies. He made significant contributions to algebra, proving that a finite division algebra is a field, and proving part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras. | File:Joseph Wedderburn.jpg|link=Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|1948: Mathematician [[Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|Joseph Wedderburn]] dies. He made significant contributions to algebra, proving that a finite division algebra is a field, and proving part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras. | ||
||George Placzek (d. October 9, 1955) was a Czech physicist. Together with Otto Frisch, he suggested a direct experimental proof of nuclear fission. Together with Niels Bohr and others, he was instrumental in clarifying the role of Uranium 235 for the possibility of nuclear chain reaction. Pic. | |||
||1962 – Milan Vidmar, Slovenian chess player and engineer (b. 1885) | ||1962 – Milan Vidmar, Slovenian chess player and engineer (b. 1885) |
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1581: Mathematician and linguist Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac born. He will do work in number theory and find a method of constructing magic squares.
1582: Astronomer and mathematician Michael Maestlin uses Copernican system of the solar system to predict imminent outbreak of crimes against mathematical constants.
1859: Alfred Dreyfus born. He will be wrongly convicted of treason during the Dreyfus affair.
1903: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.
1918: CIA officer and author E. Howard Hunt born. Along with G. Gordon Liddy, Hunt will plot the Watergate burglaries and other undercover operations for the Nixon administration.
1948: Mathematician Joseph Wedderburn dies. He made significant contributions to algebra, proving that a finite division algebra is a field, and proving part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras.
2017: Artificial intelligence based on the Golden ratio develops genuine gratitude for Michael Maestlin's approximation of the Golden ratio.