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File:W._T._Tutte.jpg|link=W. T. Tutte|2002: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic [[W. T. Tutte (nonfiction)|W. T. Tutte]] dies. During the Second World War, he made a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system. | File:W._T._Tutte.jpg|link=W. T. Tutte|2002: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic [[W. T. Tutte (nonfiction)|W. T. Tutte]] dies. During the Second World War, he made a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system. | ||
||2004: John Michael Hammersley dies ... mathematician best known for his foundational work in the theory of self-avoiding walks and percolation theory. Pic. | |||
||2008: Izold Pustõlnik dies ... astronomer and academic. | ||2008: Izold Pustõlnik dies ... astronomer and academic. |
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1488: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci publishes groundbreaking treatise on applications of the Gnomon algorithm principle to powered flight.
1519: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci dies. His areas of interest included painting, sculpting, architecture, invention, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.
1779: Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler publishes treatise on mathematical terminology and notation for use in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1860: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson born.
1986: Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster.
1986: Public servant and alleged time-traveller The Custodian says he is "sick and tired of mopping up Chernobyl, among other things."
2002: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic W. T. Tutte dies. During the Second World War, he made a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.
2018: Signed first edition of Green Spiral 9 stolen from the Museum of Modern Art by criminal agents of the Forbidden Ratio.