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||1875: Gérard Paul Deshayes dies ... geologist and conchologist. | ||1875: Gérard Paul Deshayes dies ... geologist and conchologist. | ||
||1885: John Edensor Littlewood born . | ||1885: Mathematician John Edensor Littlewood born. He will contribute to analysis, number theory, and differential equations; and will be remembered for his long collaboration with G. H. Hardy. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=john+edensor+littlewood | ||
|| | ||1903: Alan Blumlein born ... engineer ... important. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=alan+blumlein | ||
||1906: Robert Klark Graham born ... eugenicist and businessman, founded Repository for Germinal Choice. | ||1906: Robert Klark Graham born ... eugenicist and businessman, founded Repository for Germinal Choice. | ||
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1861: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem born. He will write: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."
1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new theory of sets derived from Gnomon algorithm functions. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants."
1950: Dalton Trumbo photographed by authorities.
2018: Signed first edition of Green Ring 2 used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence.