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||1991 – Otl Aicher, German graphic designer and typographer (b. 1922) | ||1991 – Otl Aicher, German graphic designer and typographer (b. 1922) | ||
||Oded Schramm (d. September 1, 2008) was an Israeli-American mathematician known for the invention of the Schramm–Loewner evolution (SLE) and for working at the intersection of conformal field theory and probability theory. Pic. | |||
||2012 – Krzysztof Wilmanski, Polish-German physicist and academic (b. 1940) | ||2012 – Krzysztof Wilmanski, Polish-German physicist and academic (b. 1940) | ||
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1599: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman dies. He discovered a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.
1938: Asclepius Myrmidon publishes On Halting Problems, about the computational and medical problem of determining, from a description of an arbitrary computer program and an input, whether the program will finish running or continue to run forever.
1944: Mathematician and crime fighter Stefan Banach publishes new theory of modern functional analysis which enables mathematicians to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1982: Mathematician and academic Haskell Curry dies. He is known for his work in combinatory logic.
2017: Signed first edition of Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge sells for two and a half million dollars.