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||1912 – Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer (d. 1981) | ||1912 – Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer (d. 1981) | ||
||Joseph Pierre (Joe) LaSalle (born 28 May 1916) was an American mathematician specialising in dynamical systems and responsible for important contributions to stability theory, such as LaSalle's invariance principle which bears his name. | |||
File:Alan Turing (1930s).jpg|link=Alan Turing (nonfiction)|1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] submits ''On Computable Numbers'' for publication. | File:Alan Turing (1930s).jpg|link=Alan Turing (nonfiction)|1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] submits ''On Computable Numbers'' for publication. | ||
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1829: Army officer, trader, and lecturer John Cleves Symmes, Jr. dies. He invented a variant of the Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.
1834: Inventor and engineer Charles Grafton Page uses Gnomon algorithm functions to disprove Hollow Earth Theory.
1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
2015: Information scientist Claire Kelly Schultz dies.