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||Frank Haven Hall (d. January 3, 1911) was an American inventor, author, academic administrator, and theoretical structuralist. He invented the first successful mechanical point writer and developed major functions of modern day typography with kerning and tracking. | ||Frank Haven Hall (d. January 3, 1911) was an American inventor, author, academic administrator, and theoretical structuralist. He invented the first successful mechanical point writer and developed major functions of modern day typography with kerning and tracking. | ||
||John Ralph Ragazzini (January 3, 1912 | ||John Ralph Ragazzini (b. January 3, 1912) was an American electrical engineer and a professor of Electrical Engineering. Ragazzini pioneered the development of the z-transform method in discrete-time signal processing and analysis. Pic. | ||
||Isabella Grigoryevna Bashmakova (b. 1921) was a Russian historian of mathematics. Pic. | |||
||1927 – Carl David Tolmé Runge, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1856) | ||1927 – Carl David Tolmé Runge, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1856) | ||
Revision as of 17:16, 5 April 2018
1641: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks dies. He was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit.
1953: Physicist and crime-fighter Erwin Schrödinger uses the Schrödinger equation to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1954: Actor and filmmaker Mel Gibson born.
1965: Antikythera Team invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
2016: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic Peter Naur dies. His main areas of inquiry were design, structure and performance of computer programs and algorithms.