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||1804: Zerah Colburn born ... child prodigy of the 19th century who gained fame as a mental calculator. Pic. | ||1804: Zerah Colburn born ... child prodigy of the 19th century who gained fame as a mental calculator. Pic. | ||
||1809: Johann Friedrich August Göttling born ... chemist. | ||1809: Johann Friedrich August Göttling born ... chemist. Pic (document). | ||
||1835: William Stanley Jevons born ... economist and logician. | ||1835: William Stanley Jevons born ... economist and logician. | ||
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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.
1648: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne dies. He is remembered as the "father of acoustics".
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.