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File:Alice Beta.jpg|link=Alice Beta|1999: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]] warns US Treasury that musician and alleged math criminal [[Skip Digits]] is planning [[math crimes]] against the US dollar. | File:Alice Beta.jpg|link=Alice Beta|1999: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]] warns US Treasury that musician and alleged math criminal [[Skip Digits]] is planning [[math crimes]] against the US dollar. | ||
John_Tukey.jpg|link=John Tukey (nonfiction)|2000: Mathematician and academic [[John Tukey (nonfiction)|John Tukey (nonfiction)]] dies. He made important contributions to statistical analysis, including the box plot. | John_Tukey.jpg|link=John Tukey (nonfiction)|2000: Mathematician and academic [[John Tukey (nonfiction)|John Tukey (nonfiction)|John Tukey]] dies. He made important contributions to statistical analysis, including the box plot. | ||
File:Skip Digits, Conductor.jpg|link=Skip Digits, Conductor|2001: Signed first edition of ''[[Skip Digits, Conductor]]'' sells for five million dollars; US Treasury investigators say money trail leads to [[Baron Zersetzung]]. | File:Skip Digits, Conductor.jpg|link=Skip Digits, Conductor|2001: Signed first edition of ''[[Skip Digits, Conductor]]'' sells for five million dollars; US Treasury investigators say money trail leads to [[Baron Zersetzung]]. | ||
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1502: Christian Egenolff born. He will be the first important printer and publisher operating from Frankfurt-am-Main.
1525: Philosopher and crime-fighter Cesare Cremonini publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on rationalism and Aristotelian materialism, which he will soon use to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1894: Writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley born. He will be widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time.
1923: Aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky demonstrates experimental helicopter which uses time crystals (nonfiction) to reduce fuel cost.
1941: Mathematician and academic Henri Lebesgue dies. He developed a theory of integration which generalizes the 17th century concept of integration (summing the area between an axis and the curve of a function defined for that axis).
1948: The WAC Corporal becomes the first US rocket which detects and prevents crimes against mathematical constants in the ionosphere.
1997: Kunihiko Kodaira, Japanese mathematician and academic dies. He did distinguished work in algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds, winning the Fields medal in 1954.
1999: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta warns US Treasury that musician and alleged math criminal Skip Digits is planning math crimes against the US dollar.
2000: Mathematician and academic John Tukey (nonfiction)|John Tukey dies. He made important contributions to statistical analysis, including the box plot.
2001: Signed first edition of Skip Digits, Conductor sells for five million dollars; US Treasury investigators say money trail leads to Baron Zersetzung.