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File:Georg Cantor diagonal argument.jpg|link=Georg Cantor|1884: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[Georg Cantor]] saves [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] from attack by [[crimes against mathematical constants|math criminals]].
File:Georg Cantor diagonal argument.jpg|link=Georg Cantor|1884: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[Georg Cantor]] saves [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] from attack by [[crimes against mathematical constants|math criminals]].


File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] has vivid dream about ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]''.
|File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] has vivid dream about ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]''.


||1897 – Emil Leon Post, Polish-American mathematician and logician (d.1954)
||1897 – Emil Leon Post, Polish-American mathematician and logician (d.1954)
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File:Oskar_Anderson.jpg|link=Oskar Anderson (nonfiction)|1930: Mathematician, statistician, and crime-fighter [[Oskar Anderson (nonfiction)|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]].
File:Oskar_Anderson.jpg|link=Oskar Anderson (nonfiction)|1930: Mathematician, statistician, and crime-fighter [[Oskar Anderson (nonfiction)|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]].


||1931 – Charles Algernon Parsons, English-Irish engineer, invented the steam turbine (b. 1854)
File:Charles Algernon Parsons.jpg|link=Charles Algernon Parsons (nonfiction)|1931: Engineer and inventor [[Charles Algernon Parsons (nonfiction)|Charles Algernon Parsons]] dies. He invented the compound steam turbine, and worked on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.


||1938 – BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
||1938 – BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".

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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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    1884: Set theorist and crime-fighter Georg Cantor saves Edward Lear from attack by math criminals.

  • 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.

    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.

    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.

  • 1931: Engineer and inventor Charles Algernon Parsons dies. He invented the compound steam turbine, and worked on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.

    1931: Engineer and inventor Charles Algernon Parsons dies. He invented the compound steam turbine, and worked on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.

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    1944: Mathematical physicist and crime-fighter Charles Critchfield uses burst of neutrons to detect and prevent crimes against physical 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.

    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.

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