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||1910 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American mathematician and economist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985) | ||1910 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American mathematician and economist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985) | ||
||Shizuo Kakutani (b. August 28, 1911) was a Japanese-American mathematician, best known for his eponymous fixed-point theorem. Pic. | |||
File:C. Wright Mills.jpg|link=C. Wright Mills (nonfiction)|1916: Sociologist and author [[C. Wright Mills (nonfiction)|C. Wright Mills]] born. He will be published widely in popular and intellectual journals, advocating public and political engagement over disinterested observation. | File:C. Wright Mills.jpg|link=C. Wright Mills (nonfiction)|1916: Sociologist and author [[C. Wright Mills (nonfiction)|C. Wright Mills]] born. He will be published widely in popular and intellectual journals, advocating public and political engagement over disinterested observation. | ||
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1801: Mathematician and philosopher Antoine Augustin Cournot born. He will introduce the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis.
1802: Mathematician and engineer Gaspard Monge publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions, based on his pioneering work in differential geometry, which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
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1916: Sociologist and author C. Wright Mills born. He will be published widely in popular and intellectual journals, advocating public and political engagement over disinterested observation.
1966: New study reveals that the Brainiac Explains lecture series is funded by a Brownian racket.