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||1921: Duane Gish born ... biochemist and academic. | ||1921: Duane Gish born ... biochemist and academic. | ||
|| | ||1927: John Lewis Selfridge born ... mathematician who contributed to the fields of analytic number theory, computational number theory, and combinatorics. | ||
||1928: Wolfhart Zimmermann born ... theoretical physicist. Pic: http://wwwth.mpp.mpg.de/conf/zimmermann-memorial/ | |||
||1930: Benjamin Fain born ... physicist and academic. | ||1930: Benjamin Fain born ... physicist and academic. | ||
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882: Physician, astronomer, mathematician, and crime-fighter Thābit ibn Qurra publishes new theory of Gnomon algorithm functions with applications in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1600: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake.
1863: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley engages and sinks the Union warship USS Housatonic. This is the first known instance of a submarine engaging and sinking a warship.
1864: Mathematician and crime-fighter Marius Sophus Lie publishes new theory of continuous symmetry with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1891: Mathematician Abraham Fraenkel born. He will contribute to axiomatic set theory, and publish a biography of George Cantor.
2003: George Plimpton publishes first in prize-winning series of articles on high-energy literature.
2012: Mathematician and theorist Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn dies. He made contributions in the fields of analysis, number theory, combinatorics, and logic.
2018: Steganographic analysis of The Eel Discovers Time Travel reveals five hundred gigabytes of encrypted data.