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File:Karl Menger 1970.jpg|link=Karl Menger (nonfiction)|1923: Mathematician [[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]] uses [[scrying engine]] techniques to attend virtual lecture by [[Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|Donald Knuth]]. | File:Karl Menger 1970.jpg|link=Karl Menger (nonfiction)|1923: Mathematician [[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]] uses [[scrying engine]] techniques to attend virtual lecture by [[Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|Donald Knuth]]. | ||
||1925: Christopher Zeeman born ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||1925: Christopher Zeeman born ... mathematician and academic. His main contributions to mathematics were in topology, particularly in knot theory, the piecewise linear category, and dynamical systems. Pic. | ||
||1926: Jaroslav Hájek born ... mathematician who worked in theoretical and nonparametric statistics. The Hájek–Le Cam convolution theorem is named after Hájek and Lucien Le Cam. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=jaroslav+hájek | |||
||1927: Rolf Landauer born ... physicist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=rolf+landauer | ||1927: Rolf Landauer born ... physicist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=rolf+landauer | ||
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File:Donald Knuth.jpg|link=Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|1994: Computer scientist and mathematician [[Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|Donald Knuth]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | File:Donald Knuth.jpg|link=Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|1994: Computer scientist and mathematician [[Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|Donald Knuth]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | ||
||1995: The Connect Four game was mathematically solved first by James D. Allen (Oct 1, 1988), and independently by Victor Allis (Oct 16, 1988). First player can force a win. Strongly solved by John Tromp's 8-ply database (Feb 4, 1995). Weakly solved for all boardsizes where width+height is at most 15 (Feb 18, 2006). *Wik Pic. | |||
||2010: Richard K. Lashof dies ... mathematician. He contributed to the field of geometric and differential topology, working with Shiing-Shen Chern, Stephen Smale, among others. Pic. | ||2010: Richard K. Lashof dies ... mathematician. He contributed to the field of geometric and differential topology, working with Shiing-Shen Chern, Stephen Smale, among others. Pic. | ||
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1889: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to manipulate the royal family.
1902: Pilot and explorer Charles Lindbergh born. At age 25 in 1927 he will go from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris.
1906: Astronomer and academic Clyde Tombaugh born. He will discover Pluto, along with many asteroids.
1923: Mathematician Karl Menger uses scrying engine techniques to attend virtual lecture by Donald Knuth.
1928: Physicist and academic Hendrik Lorentz dies. He shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.
1965: Physicist, academic, and APTO field engineer Val Logsdon Fitch visits the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada, where he gives an impromptu lecture on the decay of K-mesons as evidence that the reactions of subatomic particles are not indifferent to time.
1974: Physicist, mathematician, and academic Satyendra Nath Bose dies. His work on quantum mechanics provided the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.
1994: Computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
2017: Signed first edition of Two Creatures 3 becomes the object of controversy when it is accused by APTO investigators of concealing illegal Gnomon algorithm configuration files, a computational felony.
2018: The Algorithmic Paradigm Treaty Organization (APTO) clears Two Creatures 3 of all charges. Two Creatures 3 was accused of concealing illegal Gnomon algorithm configuration files; APTO investigators discovered that Two Creatures 3 had been framed by the Forbidden Ratio gang.