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||1910: Pao-Lu Hsu born ... mathematician noted for his work in probability theory and statistics. Pic. | ||1910: Pao-Lu Hsu born ... mathematician noted for his work in probability theory and statistics. Pic. | ||
||1919: Hilda Hänchen born ... physicist and academic. | ||1919: Hilda Hänchen born ... physicist and academic. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Hilda+Hänchen | ||
||1932: Jacobus Hendricus ("Jack") van Lint born ... mathematician and academic. His field of research was initially number theory, but he worked mainly in combinatorics and coding theory. Pic. | ||1932: Jacobus Hendricus ("Jack") van Lint born ... mathematician and academic. His field of research was initially number theory, but he worked mainly in combinatorics and coding theory. Pic. | ||
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1599: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman dies. He discovered a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.
1648: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne dies. He is remembered as the "father of acoustics".
1938: Asclepius Myrmidon publishes On Halting Problems, about the computational and medical problem of determining, from a description of an arbitrary computer program and an input, whether the program will finish running or continue to run forever.
1944: Mathematician and crime fighter Stefan Banach publishes new theory of modern functional analysis which enables mathematicians to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1982: Mathematician and academic Haskell Curry dies. He is known for his work in combinatory logic.
2017: Signed first edition of Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge sells for two and a half million dollars.