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||1924: Harvey Kurtzman born ... cartoonist. | ||1924: Harvey Kurtzman born ... cartoonist. | ||
||1928: Jack Kenneth Hale born ... mathematician working primarily in the field of dynamical systems and functional differential equations. | ||1928: Jack Kenneth Hale born ... mathematician working primarily in the field of dynamical systems and functional differential equations. http://math.gatech.edu/hg/item/589462 | ||
||1928: Bernard A. Galler born ... mathematician and computer scientist at the University of Michigan who was involved in the development of large-scale operating systems and computer languages including the MAD programming language and the Michigan Terminal System operating system. Pic. | ||1928: Bernard A. Galler born ... mathematician and computer scientist at the University of Michigan who was involved in the development of large-scale operating systems and computer languages including the MAD programming language and the Michigan Terminal System operating system. Pic. |
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1881: Mathematician and religious leader Orson Pratt dies. As part of his system of Mormon theology, Pratt embraced the philosophical doctrine of hylozoism.
1882: Canterbury scrying engine reprogrammed to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.
1891: Mathematician Édouard Lucas dies. He studied the Fibonacci sequence; the related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers are named after him.
1930: Mathematician Robin Farquharson born. He will write an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as Theory of Voting.
2006: Mathematician and physicist John Crank dies. He worked on the numerical solution of partial differential equations; his work with Phyllis Nicolson on the heat equation resulted in the Crank–Nicolson method.
2012: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy dies. He is generally credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium could be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.
2018: Green Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.