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||Jerzy Neyman (d. August 5, 1981), born Jerzy Spława-Neyman, was a Polish mathematician and statistician | ||Jerzy Neyman (d. August 5, 1981), born Jerzy Spława-Neyman, was a Polish mathematician and statistician | ||
||Solomon Kullback (d. August 5, 1994) was an American cryptanalyst and mathematician, who was one of the first three employees hired by William F. Friedman at the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s, along with Frank Rowlett and Abraham Sinkov. | |||
||2008 – Neil Bartlett, English-American chemist and academic (b. 1932) | ||2008 – Neil Bartlett, English-American chemist and academic (b. 1932) | ||
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1816: The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.
1901: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.
1910: Mathematician Julius Petersen dies. His famous paper Die Theorie der regulären graphs is a fundamental contribution to modern graph theory.
1914: In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
1921: New version of Bernoulli family tree powered by cellular automata.
1920: Artist George Tooker born. His paintings will depict his subjects naturally, as in a photograph, but the images will use flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality.
1981: Musician and alleged math criminal Skip Digits begins North American tour.