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||1879 – Milutin Milanković, Serbian mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (d. 1958) | ||1879 – Milutin Milanković, Serbian mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (d. 1958) | ||
||Egbert Rudolf van Kampen (b. 28 May 1908) was a Dutch mathematician. He made important contributions to topology, especially to the study of fundamental groups. Pic. | |||
||1912 – Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist, academic, and politician (d. 1992) | ||1912 – Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist, academic, and politician (d. 1992) | ||
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1829: Army officer, trader, and lecturer John Cleves Symmes, Jr. dies. He invented a variant of the Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.
1834: Inventor and engineer Charles Grafton Page uses Gnomon algorithm functions to disprove Hollow Earth Theory.
1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
2015: Information scientist Claire Kelly Schultz dies.