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||1986 – Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896) | ||1986 – Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896) | ||
||Raj Chandra Bose (d. 31 October 1987) was an Indian American mathematician and statistician best known for his work in design theory, finite geometry and the theory of error-correcting codes in which the class of BCH codes is partly named after him. He also invented the notions of partial geometry, strongly regular graph and started a systematic study of difference sets to construct symmetric block designs. Pic. | |||
||George Eugene Uhlenbeck (d. October 31, 1988) was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist. | ||George Eugene Uhlenbeck (d. October 31, 1988) was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist. | ||
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1815: Mathematician and academic Karl Weierstrass born. He will be cited as the "father of modern analysis".
1847: Physicist and electrical engineer Galileo Ferraris born. He will be a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor.
2017: Steganographic analysis of The Eel Escapes Hydrolab reveals fifteen terabytes of encrypted data.
