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||Timothy "Tim" Poston (d. 22 August 2017, Bangalore, India) was an English mathematician best known for his work on catastrophe theory. Pic. | ||Timothy "Tim" Poston (d. 22 August 2017, Bangalore, India) was an English mathematician best known for his work on catastrophe theory. Pic. | ||
||Michael John Caldwell Gordon (d. 22 August 2017) was a leading British computer scientist. He led the development of the HOL theorem prover. The HOL system is an environment for interactive theorem proving in a higher-order logic. | |||
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1854: Poet Jan Kochanowski dies. He established poetic patterns which would become integral to the Polish literary language.
1919: Theoretical physicist and crime-fighter Johannes Diderik van der Waals publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants based on the states of gases and liquids.
1920: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury born. The New York Times will call Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
1943: Signed first edition of Janet Beta at ENIAC traded for freshly minted 1943 Eleanor Roosevelt dime.
1974: Mathematician, historian of science, theatre author, poet, and inventor Jacob Bronowski dies.
1975: Statistician and educator George E. P. Box publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions, based on time-series analysis and Bayesian inference, which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
- Andrzej Mostowski (d. 22 August 1975) was a Polish mathematician. He is perhaps best remembered for the Mostowski collapse lemma.