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||1912: Hans Julius Zassenhaus born ... mathematician, known for work in many parts of abstract algebra, and as a pioneer of computer algebra. Pic. | ||1912: Hans Julius Zassenhaus born ... mathematician, known for work in many parts of abstract algebra, and as a pioneer of computer algebra. Pic. | ||
||1916: Joseph Pierre (Joe) LaSalle born ... mathematician | ||1916: Joseph Pierre (Joe) LaSalle born ... mathematician specializing in dynamical systems and responsible for important contributions to stability theory, such as LaSalle's invariance principle which bears his name. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Joseph+LaSalle+mathematician | ||
||1917: Georgiy Timofeyevich Zatsepin born ... astrophysicist known for his works in cosmic rays physics and neutrino astrophysics. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Georgiy+Zatsepin | ||1917: Georgiy Timofeyevich Zatsepin born ... astrophysicist known for his works in cosmic rays physics and neutrino astrophysics. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Georgiy+Zatsepin | ||
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1829: Army officer, trader, and lecturer John Cleves Symmes, Jr. dies. He invented a variant of the Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.
1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
1974: Euglena Junction wins the Prime Time Emmy for Best New Show. Broadcasting live from the Pantages Theater via NBC, host Johnny Carson calls it "an extraordinary study of the genus Euglena, and a brilliant parody of Petticoat Junction."
2015: Information scientist Claire Kelly Schultz dies.
2016: Signed first edition of Ringmaster stolen from the Guggenheim by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.