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||Adrien Douady (d. 2 November 2006) was a French mathematician. | ||Adrien Douady (d. 2 November 2006) was a French mathematician. | ||
||Amir Pnueli (d. November 2, 2009) was an Israeli computer scientist and the 1996 Turing Award recipient. He worked on temporal logic and model checking, particularly regarding fairness properties of concurrent systems. Pic. | |||
||Captain Forrest R. "Tex" Biard (d. November 2, 2009) was an American linguist in the U.S. Navy codebreaking organization during the Second World War. A pre-war student of Japanese, Biard's translation work is considered to have been an important part of American military success. | ||Captain Forrest R. "Tex" Biard (d. November 2, 2009) was an American linguist in the U.S. Navy codebreaking organization during the Second World War. A pre-war student of Japanese, Biard's translation work is considered to have been an important part of American military success. | ||
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1815: Mathematician and philosopher George Boole born. He will work in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.
1893: Mathematician and crime-fighter George Chrystal publishes evidence that seiches (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water) are vulnerable to both crimes against physics and crimes against chemistry.
1903: George P. Metesky born. He will terrorize New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he plants in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.