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File:John Harrison.jpg|link=John Harrison (nonfiction)|1693: Carpenter and clockmaker [[John Harrison (nonfiction)|John Harrison]] born.  He will invent a marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea.
File:Ernst Chladni.jpg|link=Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|1827: Physicist, musician, and academic [[Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|Ernst Chladni]] dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics.
File:Ernst Chladni.jpg|link=Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|1827: Physicist, musician, and academic [[Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|Ernst Chladni]] dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics.
File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1841: Inventor and crime-fighter [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
File:Solomon Kullback.jpg|link=Solomon Kullback (nonfiction)|1907: Cryptanalyst and mathematician [[Solomon Kullback (nonfiction)|Solomon Kullback]] born. Krullback will begin his career with the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s; when the National Security Agency (NSA) is formed in 1952, Rowlett will become chief of cryptanalysis, overseeing the research and development of computerized cryptanalysis.
 
File:Marion Tinsley.jpg|link=Marion Tinsley (nonfiction)|1995: Mathematician and checkers player [[Marion Tinsley (nonfiction)|Marion Tinsley]] dies. Tinsley was "to checkers what Leonardo da Vinci was to science, what Michelangelo was to art and what Beethoven was to music."
 
File:Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright.jpg|link=Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|1998: Mathematician and academic [[Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|Mary Cartwright]] dies. She did pioneering work in [[Chaos theory (nonfiction)|chaos theory]].
File:Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright.jpg|link=Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|1998: Mathematician and academic [[Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|Mary Cartwright]] dies. She did pioneering work in [[Chaos theory (nonfiction)|chaos theory]].
File:Mir.jpg|link=Mir (nonfiction)|1999: Sensors on the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir spacecraft]] detect patterns of electricity which reveal existence of a [[AESOP|vast artificial intelligence in the Earth's ionosphere]].
 
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  • 1693: Carpenter and clockmaker John Harrison born. He will invent a marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea.

    1693: Carpenter and clockmaker John Harrison born. He will invent a marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea.

  • 1827: Physicist, musician, and academic Ernst Chladni dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics.

    1827: Physicist, musician, and academic Ernst Chladni dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics.

  • 1907: Cryptanalyst and mathematician Solomon Kullback born. Krullback will begin his career with the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s; when the National Security Agency (NSA) is formed in 1952, Rowlett will become chief of cryptanalysis, overseeing the research and development of computerized cryptanalysis.

    1907: Cryptanalyst and mathematician Solomon Kullback born. Krullback will begin his career with the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s; when the National Security Agency (NSA) is formed in 1952, Rowlett will become chief of cryptanalysis, overseeing the research and development of computerized cryptanalysis.

  • 1995: Mathematician and checkers player Marion Tinsley dies. Tinsley was "to checkers what Leonardo da Vinci was to science, what Michelangelo was to art and what Beethoven was to music."

    1995: Mathematician and checkers player Marion Tinsley dies. Tinsley was "to checkers what Leonardo da Vinci was to science, what Michelangelo was to art and what Beethoven was to music."

  • 1998: Mathematician and academic Mary Cartwright dies. She did pioneering work in chaos theory.

    1998: Mathematician and academic Mary Cartwright dies. She did pioneering work in chaos theory.

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