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||1925: Stirling Colgate born ... physicist and academic. | ||1925: Stirling Colgate born ... physicist and academic. | ||
||1932: Jacques Jean-Pierre Neveu born ... mathematician, specializing in probability theory. He is one of the founders of the French school (post WW II) of probability and statistics. Pic. | |||
||1945: Eldridge Reeves Johnson dies ... businessman and engineer who founded the Victor Talking Machine Company and built it into the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time. | ||1945: Eldridge Reeves Johnson dies ... businessman and engineer who founded the Victor Talking Machine Company and built it into the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time. | ||
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1716: Mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz dies. He developed differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton, and designed and built mechanical calculators.
1970: Famed illustration Six Seconds to Hell sells for two million dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1971: Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars. It will map 70% of the surface, and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Two Creatures 2 unexpectedly reveals "at least fifty kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.
2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates forty-sixth anniversary of Mariner 9 entering orbit around Mars.