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||1910 – Kelly Johnson, American engineer, co-founded Skunk Works (d. 1990) | ||1910 – Kelly Johnson, American engineer, co-founded Skunk Works (d. 1990) | ||
||Joseph Leo "Joe" Doob (b. February 27, 1910) was an American mathematician, specializing in analysis and probability theory. He will develop the modern theory of martingales. Pic. | |||
||Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin (d. February 27, 1915) was a Russian mathematician. | ||Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin (d. February 27, 1915) was a Russian mathematician. | ||
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1735: Physician, satirist, and polymath John Arbuthnot dies. He invented the figure of John Bull.
1881: Mathematician and philosopher L. E. J. Brouwer born. He will make contributions to topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis; and he will found the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1940: Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14. Its presence in organic materials is the basis of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and colleagues (1949) to date archaeological, geological and hydrogeological samples.
1967: Tokens harvested from Diagramaceous soil used to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.