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||1914 – George Westinghouse, American engineer and businessman (b. 1846) | ||1914 – George Westinghouse, American engineer and businessman (b. 1846) | ||
||László Fejes Tóth (b. 12 March 1915) was a Hungarian mathematician who specialized in geometry. Together with H.S.M. Coxeter and Paul Erdős, he laid the foundations of discrete geometry. | |||
||1920 – Roland Fraïssé, French mathematical logician (d. 2008) | ||1920 – Roland Fraïssé, French mathematical logician (d. 2008) | ||
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1824: Physicist and academic Gustav Kirchhoff born. He will contribute to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.
1882: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead develops new process philosophy using Gnomon algorithm functions, which will later be used to reverse the effects of certain crimes against mathematical constants.
1898: Mathematician and physicist Johann Jakob Balmer dies. He developed an empirical formula for the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom.
1923: Celebrity time-traveller Radium Jane falls asleep, relapses into her Janet Beta state.
2016: Mathematician and economist Lloyd Shapley dies. He defined game theory as "a mathematical study of conflict and cooperation."
2016: Game theory program erases itself, unable to bear the death of Lloyd Shapley.
2017: Synthetic organism Ultravore consumes twenty kilograms of plutonium dust with no apparent ill effect.