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||Ernst Paul Specker (b. 11 February 1920) was a Swiss mathematician. Much of his most influential work was on Quine’s New Foundations, a set theory with a universal set, but he is most famous for the Kochen–Specker theorem in quantum mechanics, showing that certain types of hidden variable theories are impossible. | ||Ernst Paul Specker (b. 11 February 1920) was a Swiss mathematician. Much of his most influential work was on Quine’s New Foundations, a set theory with a universal set, but he is most famous for the Kochen–Specker theorem in quantum mechanics, showing that certain types of hidden variable theories are impossible. | ||
||Yozo Matsushima (b. February 11, 1921) was a Japanese mathematician. | |||
||1923 – Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician and academic (b. 1847) | ||1923 – Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician and academic (b. 1847) | ||
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1617: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini dies. He supported a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.
1650: Mathematician and philosopher René Descartes dies. He is remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.
1847: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison born. He will develop the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.
1884: Set theorist and crime-fighter Georg Cantor saves Edward Lear from attack by math criminals.
1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear has vivid dream about The Dark Side of the Moon.
1898: Physicist and academic Leo Szilard born. He will conceive the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patent the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.
1930: Mathematician, statistician, and crime-fighter Oskar Anderson publishes new theory of mathematical statistics based on Gnomon algorithm functions with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1973: Nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize laureate J. Hans D. Jensen dies. He shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.
1977: The Dark Side of the Moon strangely moved by the poetry of Edward Lear.
