Template:Selected anniversaries/March 12
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1882: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead uses scrying engine technology to forecast advances in process philosophy.
1932: Neon lighting says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting electricity into light.
1941: Plutonium stolen by Gnotilus. A wave of crimes against mathematical constants follows.
2016: Mathematician and economist Lloyd Shapley dies. He defined game theory as "a mathematical study of conflict and cooperation."